Bill Robins, SJ

Bill Robins, SJ, is a Canadian Jesuit who lived at Godavari, our original school at the south-east edge of the Kathmandu Valley. He lived in a community of six Jesuits and taught 11 and 12 English until his return to Canada in 2021.


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    "Another hope for the coming year is to continue to let go, as younger Jesuits, all from South Asia, administer our Nepal Region in their own way."...

    This post grew from Pope Francis' prayer intention: "That those who have material, political or spiritual power may resist any lure of corruption."...

    "The Pope's prayer intention for July 2017 was: That our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the merciful closeness of the Lord and the beauty of the Christian life."...

    For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them."Hopefully Canadians will give themselves a 150th birthday present when our government signs and ratifies the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), albeit four years late."...

    Bill Robins, SJ and mobile clinic supporter Chris Fussner made a December visit to Birendra Nagar, the headquarters of Surkhet District, where the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) run a school, a women's development project, and mobile clinics at several out of the way locations....

    Who would want to settle in what is now Manitoba? I happily grew up in Winnipeg, but my first views of mountains, when I was about fifteen years old, raised this question. Forty-four years of life in the Himalaya is my answer. I thoroughly enjoy periodic visits home, and even put up with the challenges of a Winnipeg winter in early 1977. I taught at St. Paul's High School then. This summer's reading helped answer my question....

    Bill Robins, SJ takes us back to Tipling in Nepal nine months after the building of a Jesuit residence, chapel, and kitchen/dining room....

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