Fr. Provincial's

Monthly Message

February 2025

Dilexit Nos – The Significance of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Is the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (SHJ) declining in recent years? Catholic writers raise this question in the troubled world where we are facing wars, socio-economic inequalities, unchecked consumerism, and technologies that threaten to undermine human nature. In this context, on 24th Oct 2024, Pope Francis delivered an Encyclical, Dilexit Nos (He Loved Us): On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ....

Vision

Companions of Jesus
marching with the marginalised
for a world of reconciliation and justice.

Mission

The mission of reconciliation
with God, with one another
and with creation.

Chennai Province

News & Events

JCSA meeting in Chennai

Magis Digital Home

Province Ordination – 2024

Global Jesuit's

News & Events

From Oppression to Opportunity

Loyola College Chennai: A Century of Light

Care for Nature in Jesuit Chennai Province

Videos and Resources

Chennai Jesuit Youtube Channel

Chennai Province

Our Beneficiaries

10700

Children

Children from rural villages and urban slums are reached out through evening study centre and non-formal education programmes

7200

Women

Women empowered from rural sections of our society through Self-Help Groups and various conscientization programmes

4600

Youth

Through skill development and leadership training, the youth in our target group are

19100

Students

Students in our schools and colleges are given holistic formation to be men and women for others.

3200

Tribals

Irular and Urali tribals are empowered by the presence of Jesuits.

Chennai Province

Apostolic Preferences

Empowering the marginalized

Preserving & protecting the environment

Providing holistic & integral formation to youth

Promoting justice, peace, reconciliation & secular values

Forming our men to be rooted in Ignatian Spirituality

Universal

Apostolic Preferences

They are four working fields to which the Society of Jesus will pay special attention and in which it will invest a significant portion of its various resources over the next few years.