Jesuit European Volunteers
The Jesuit Volunteers is a full time lay volunteer organization
grounded in the principles of Ignatian Spirituality. We offer young men and
women the opportunity to complete a year or more of service experience with
the focus on peace and justice. The challenge to Jesuit Volunteers is to
integrate Christian faith by working and living directly with the poor and
marginalized. It is expected that the Jesuit Volunteers will open their minds
and hearts to live always conscious of the poor, committed to the Church's
mission of promoting justice in the service of faith. In this experience, the
volunteers live in an intentional community, on a simple stipend, and explore
together the root causes of social injustice. The values of the Jesuit
Volunteers are confirmed in these four tenets: Social Justice, Ignatian
Spirituality, Community Living, and Simple
Lifestyle.
Christian faith challenges the volunteer to stand up for social justice,
to analyze the structures of society and to seek solutions. Volunteers work
in various placements: with the mentally or physically disabled, with the
poor and homeless, with persons with addictions, with refugees and
asylum-seekers, with abused and/or abandoned persons,
etc.
This can be summed up in the phrase “finding God in all things". The
Ignatian charisma invites women and men to search for and find God in every
circumstance of his life, not just in explicitly religious situations or
activities such as prayer in church or in private. It implies that God is
present everywhere and, though invisible, can be “found" in any and all of
the creatures which God has made. Essentially, God's love bears fruit in
lives, work and relationships through reflection and
prayer.
Composed of women and men from diverse backgrounds, communities challenge
the volunteer to admit and also accept his/her own strengths and weaknesses,
as well as those of others. Community life offers a place to share
experiences, faith and hope; thus integrating the members in the life of the
church. During the JEV year, each community is accompanied by a support
person. This is either an Ex-JEV or a Jesuit, or a person familiar with the
Ignatian spirituality, who participates in the weekly community meetings and
assists the group in growing together and supporting one another during the
year.
The simplicity with which JEVs live in all areas of life should contrast
with the consumerism of our culture. It is also a part of the community's
solidarity with those among whom it works. It helps one become conscious of
individual wants and needs, and be attentive to real
values.
The experience of this year can be of lasting value. It can broaden
horizons, challenge values and change lives.
Coordination for
Europe
Contact Person: Fernando Galligo S.J. (CAS)
Jesuit Volunteer Programs in your
country
In order to obtain further details on the various JV-programs, the
following addresses list the countries in which the Jesuit Volunteer Programs
exist and/or the contact person. If you are interested in applying to become a
Jesuit Volunteer, please contact the JV-program in your home country.
Britain <> France <> Germany <> Ireland <> Poland <> Slovakia <> Switzerland <> Austria <> Hungary
- JVC-Britain
Jesuit Volunteer Communities
Clare Lewis
Green Fish Resource Centre
46-50 Oldham Street
Manchester M4 1LE
Great Britain
Tel: + 44 161 234 2933
E-Mail: admin@jvcbritain.org
Internet: www.jesuitjvcbritain.org
- JVE-France
Jeunes Volontaires Européens
Vincent Marcillac SJ
Le Chatelard - Route du Bruissin
F-69340
Francheville
France
Tel: + 33 4 72 16 22 25
Fax: + 33 4 72 16 22
22
E-Mail: vincentdaneydemarcillac@wanadoo.fr
Internet: j.v.e.free.fr
- JEV-Germany
New Address:
Jesuit European Volunteers
P. Michael Beschorner SJ
Königstr. 64
90402 Nürnberg
Tel: +49 (0)911 2346 500
Fax: +49 (0)911 2346 501
www.jev-online.de
- JVC- Ireland
Jesuit Volunteer
Communities
Jesuit Volunteer
Communities,
20 Upper Gardiner Street
Dublin 1
Tel: +353 1 878
7167
Fax: +353 1 855 5624
volunteercommunities@sli-eile.com
http://www.sli-eile.com/
- JEV-Poland
Jesuit European Volunteers
Norbert
Frejek SJ
ul. W. Stysia 16a
PL- 53 526
Wroclaw
Poland
Tel: +48 71 338 07 90
Fax: +48 71 338 07 93
mail: jev@jezuici.krakow.pl
http://www.wolontariat.katolik.pl/
- JEV-Slovakia
Jesuit European
Volunteers
Bernard Misowic SJ
Namesti padlych hrdinov 7
900 28 Ivanka
pri Dunaji
Slovakia
Tel: +421 2 402 59 238
Fax: +421 2 402 59 237
jev@nextra.sk
http://www.jezuiti.sk/index.php?stranka=diela_jav
http://www.jev.sk/index.html
- JEV-Switzerland
Jesuit European
Volunteers
Christoph Albrecht SJ
Notre-Dame de la Route
Chemin des Eaux-Vives 17
CH - 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne
Tel: +41 (0)26 409 75 03
E-Mail: jev_ch@hotmail.com
- JEV-Austria
Johanna Zdrahal
Dr. Ignaz Seipel
Platz 1
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel: + 43 1 512 522 32 30
Fax: + 43
1 512 48 99
E-Mail: jesprov@eunet.at
- JEV-Hungary
Peter Musto SJ
Pf. 2208
H-6701
Szeged
Hungary
Tel: + 36 62 47 12 50
Fax: + 36 62 45 57 12
