This week the twin colleges of St. Xavier’s and St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology (Digha, Patna) held their graduation day. It was a very special and an unforgettable day for the college as the first batch of Economics department and Mass Communication department students were going out as the ambassadors of the college. […]
Sir, The good old boys of St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Calcutta recounted the good old days in memory of one of the best loved teachers. Anecdotes about Father Camille Bouche SJ were shared at the school assembly on Thursday, bringing alive the man generations of Xaverians have loved and revered. Alumnorum Societas (Alsoc), the […]
All the top Jesuit priests are heading to Rome for the 36th General Congregation. Its main business will be to elect a new Superior General. (A long time ago, the head of the Jesuits was also called the Black Pope, perhaps because of the black robes they wore at the time, or because they seemed […]
Tuesday was World Peace Day (21 September). The campus housing the twin St Xavier’s colleges at Digha saw several strange faces. The reason? An inter-department Face painting competition jointly by St. Xavier’s College and St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology. The competition was based on the college annual theme “Healthy Youth, Wealthy Nation”. […]
Patna: On Saturday evening (27 August) Some 300 people, mainly students and staff of the St Xavier’s Colleges (the organisers) and (among others,) a small group representing the cabinet of Patna Women’s College and St Xavier’s College of Education, speechified, sang songs and lit candles in a token ‘protest’ to draw attention to the alleged […]
[ One of our readers, Gaurav Anand sent in tis piece for ‘Jesuit Education Month’ I am a student of St. Xavier’s College, Patna ( a Jesuit institution). I would like to share my experience in my college. Most of the educational institutes today have become more of a business than temples of learning. Where […]
What does the term ‘Jesuit Education’ mean to me? I was thrown into a Jesuit school by my parents at the very beginning of my school life, and now that my crucial first seven years of scholastic life were already thrust into the hands of Jesuits, like it or not, I am one of those […]
The Jesuits have seen the training of religious and lay people as core to their mission for more than 400 years. The order’s form of education is based on the experience and life of the Spanish founder of the order, Ignatius Loyola. A lay Catholic, he developed the “Spiritual Exercises,” a devotional guide to a more […]
