JHIA Newsletter - No.27, February 2024

Abstract

On Saturday, January 13 Hekima College and the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa hosted eleven Jesuit priests from around the world. This rather eclectic group—comprising Jesuit priests from Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Zambia, the United States, Portugal, Italy, and Vietnam, and Goa—had arrived in Nairobi less than two weeks earlier to begin the phase of Jesuit formation known as Tertianship. The time bears the name “Tertianship” because it represents the Jesuit’s “third” and final probation before profession of final vows and definitive incorporation into the Society of Jesus. “First probation” refers to the fortnight when those aspiring to enter the Society of Jesus live in the Jesuit novitiate but apart from the other novices, or Jesuits in their first stage of formation. The time they join the rest of the novices to their first profession nearly two years later is known as “second probation.”....