CANADA – Walking with the excluded at Jesu Ashram
From
its founding in 1971 by Br Robert Mittelholtz SJ, a Canadian missionary, Jesu
Ashram has had one focus: caring for those who are excluded by society. Every
initiative of the health care facility has been for poor, marginalized,
destitute people. The four new Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) of the
Society of Jesus are an explicit, helpful indication of those charisms that
inform all aspects of our ministry at Jesu Ashram, but it is not difficult to
see how our mission is particularly oriented toward the preference “walking
with the excluded.” The patients and residents at Jesu Ashram come from that
section of Indian society that is often referred to as “the poorest of the
poor.” Read more…
Posted by SJES ROME
- Communications Coordinator in GENERAL CURIA