For this Japanese choir, to sing at this memorial for St. Ignatius Loyola was to bring their own prayers for peace as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Phillip Alcon Ganir, S.J.
Phillip Alcon Ganir, S.J., teaches courses in liturgy, sacred music and religious education at Boston College’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry.
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A rare Jesuit opera inspired by St. Francis Xavier
The opera ‘San Xavier’ provides a glimpse of how Jesuits evangelized with music—a key dimension of the 1986 film “The Mission.”
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The Jesuits’ musical legacy: A mission opera debuts in Bolivia
This week, a music festival returns to the Chiquitos missions in Bolivia, which the Jesuits established between 1691 and 1760. The story of the Jesuit “reductions” was made popular by the 1986 film ‘The Mission.’