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AMDG    Celebrating Alberto Hurtado SJ and his legacy. 
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St Alberto Hurtado SJ

This Saturday (18 August) we celebrate a remarkable Jesuit: Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga SJ (1901-1952) was a Chilean Jesuit, lawyer and social worker, who in 1944 became the founder of the influential ‘Hogar de Cristo’, which aimed to provide homes and shelter to assist poor and abandoned young people in Chile. He was dedicated to making Catholic Social Teaching more widely known and understood. He published a number of important books and founded the journal ‘Mensaje’ and in 1947 he helped establish the Chilean Trade Union Association. He was much sought-after as an inspirational preacher and retreat director for young people. He died of cancer aged 51 and was widely revered throughout Chile for his saintliness. Pope Benedict XVI canonised Hurtado in 2005. Damian Howard SJ described him as an "unusually gifted man" and you can read more of Damian's thoughts with Thinking Faith. 
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Next week's Music & Scripture:

 

Saturday, St Alberto Hurtado SJ & Sunday - John 6:51-58 - Margaret Rizza & The Convivium Singers
Monday, St Bernard - Matthew 19:16-22 Luke Parker 
Tuesday, St Pius X - Matthew 19:23-30 Bach, performed by the Tavener Players 
Wednesday, Our Lady, Queen - Matthew 20:1-16 The monks of Keur Moussa 
Thursday - Matthew 22:1-14 - One Hope Project 
Friday, Saint Bartholomew - John 1:45-51 - Salt of the Sound

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JRS & The Hurtado Centre

In honour of St Alberto Hurtado SJ, why not take a look at the work of the Hurtado Centre here in London? Home to the Jesuit Refugee Service Day Centre, the Hurtado Jesuit Centre was opened on 16 April 2011 by Fr Adolfo Nicholás SJ, the Superior General of the Jesuits. The Centre is a place where Hurtado’s spiritual and practical response to inequality and injustice goes on.
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We have an audio prayer resource pack, which invites you to take a journey of hospitality alongside hosts and guests with Jesuit Refugee Service, to see the courage and dignity of asylum seekers who experience destitution and homelessness in the UK. Stories or passages of scripture are suggested alongside questions and prayers in the Ignatian tradition. Listen and pray with this resource.
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