Deusto CampusFaith

Introduction

The University of Deusto, an institution of the Society of Jesus, assumes the mission of serving society through a specifically university-based contribution and from a Christian vision of reality.

We believe that faith is an important dimension in the development of the person. For this reason, we promote activities to live, share and grow in the experience of faith. From the Jesuit tradition and Ignatian spirituality, framed in the Catholic Christian faith, several possibilities are offered.

In this sense, the Faith and Spirituality area offers you accompaniment, training and experiences that will help you to get to know the Christian faith better, to deepen the spiritual dimension of your life and from there to discover how to contribute to a more just and sustainable world.

Contact

Bilbao

24, Universidades Ave. 48007 - Bilbao

944 139 374
pastoral@deusto.es

SAN SEBASTIAN

Central Building. 50, Mundaiz St. 20012 - San Sebastian

943 326 600 Ext.: 5293
pastoralss@deusto.es

Joaquín Mussacchio - Want to talk? I'm listening

Our students

The spiritual accompaniment allowed me to enter into my inner self and to visualise issues to strengthen my life project.

Joaquín MussacchioDo you want to talk? I'm listening
Xabier García - MAGIS

Our students

It has been a very rewarding experience that has given me the chance to stop, reflect and disconnect from my routine.

Xabier GarcíaMAGIS

MAG+S Community

It is a network that promotes groups of young people (between 20 and 30 years old) in which to share and deepen their faith and life. Through group meetings, events and celebrations, with other people your age, you look at life and join a journey that helps you to seek and find God in everyday life, encourage commitment to justice and help each young person to find their place in the church and in the world through vocational discernment tools.

In Bilbao we are organised in four/five groups, which are made up of 10-12 people. Most of us are studying although some of us have already started working.

If you want to know more about MAGIS you can find more information on the website or visit the Deusto Campus Faith office on the Bilbao campus.

  • When: Wednesdays at 20 :15
  • Place: Arrupe Etxea, 2 Padre Lojendio St.
  • Note: prior interview is essential.

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In San Sebastian we are organised in four groups, which are made up of 10-12 people. Most of us are studying although some of us have already started working. 

If you want to know more about MAGIS you can find more information on the website or visit the Deusto Campus Faith office on the San Sebastian campus. 

When: to be defined
Place: Loiola Centre. 3, Andia St.
Note: prior interview is essential.

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Garate International

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Garate International

Every year, the University of Deusto's community welcomes a significant number of international students with whom we share a space of encounter between different cultures, traditions and religions. We do so inspired by the figure of Blessed Francisco Garate (1888 - 1929), who was the person in charge of welcoming students to the university for forty years.

DEUSTO CAMPUS FAITH COMMUNITY

SPACES AND ACTIVITIES

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Javierada

On Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, 2025, we share the custom of many Christians
to pilgrimage to Javier. It's a 20-mile journey to meet, celebrate and approach history, culture and nature. We'll sleep at the sanctuary hostel.

Price of transport, food and accommodation: 30 euros.

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Meditation

Time to pause, listen to our bodies and our inner selves through the practice of postural awareness.

When: Tuesdays.
Time: 14:00 - 14:45.
Venue: Romanesque Chapel (Bilbaocampus).

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When: Thursdays.
Time: 14:00 - 14:45.
Venue: Theatre Room, Innogune Building -2 (San Sebastian Campus).

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Life project workshop

Session 1: 4 March:The keys to designing a life project. Knowing my needs, characteristics, limitations and values.
Session 2: 11 March: Obstacles and resistance: identifying critical voices. Listening to the real inner voice.
Session 3: 18 March: Connecting with my deep aspirations. Discovering my inner potential.
Session 4: 25 March: Dynamic map of my life project. Engage and seek partnerships

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Watch and discuss The Chosen

Watch and comment on the TV series The Chosen on the premises of the Deusto Campus. Pecking included.
When: First and third Wednesday of the month in Bilbao.
Time: 14:20-15: 00 (after the Eucharist of 14:00)

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Spiritual Exercices in Everyday Life

The experience of personal prayer in everyday life, led by an assistant with the methodology of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
Next Wednesday from 15:00 to 16:00
12 February 2025
26 February 2025
12 March 2025

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Pilgrimage to Lourdes «On the footprints of Fr. Arrupe sj»

The pilgrimage experience from Bilbao to Lourdes, following in the footsteps of the visit of Pedro Arrupe sj, a medical student, who saw his life transformed. From Friday, March 28 to Saturday, March 29, at night. Bus trip and lunch in Lourdes.
Price: 100 euros 

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Meeting MÁS QUE

March 2025

Through dynamics and prayer, through testimonies and group sharing, this meeting will help you to know how the Christian vocation can live in its professional vocation.

Health, Education, Psychology and Right-Economics are some of the areas in which young people between the ages of 21 and 30 are proposed to associate their professional concerns and abilities with their faith and Christian commitment, inviting them to deepen their personal vocation process.

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Easter MAG+S

From MAG+S Pastoral, young people between the ages of 18 and 30, from Ignatian spirituality, we propose to celebrate EASTER in the community with other young people (university and professional) from all over Spain.

MAG+S 2023 Easter offers spaces for praying, acting, sharing and celebrating the faith that unites us as the Church and the Ignatian community. We want to celebrate these important days together in our faith.

Please contact: pastoral@deusto.es

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2025

Egunean Eguneko Ebanjelioa

Egutegi liturgikoa, igande eta jai-egunetan irakurgai guztiak, otoitzak eta debozioak

2025. urtea

Your vocation starts today

Vocational culture

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Your vocation starts today

Vocational culture

The story runs a certain parallelism between the conversion experience that Ignatius of Loyola lived 500 years ago and the wound that Nacho is living today in 2022. UNIJES has commissioned this inspirational video as part of the Project for the development of a Vocational Culture in its centres and on the occasion of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Remember, your vocation begins today, day by day, it begins in your story and with others.

Spirituality

Meditation

Monthly prayer

Spiritual exercises

Personal support

Interreligious space

Want to talk? I'm listening

Time to stop, listen to our body and our inner self through the exercise of postural attention.

When: Tuesdays.
Time: 14:00 - 14:45.
Place: Romanesque chapel (Bilbao Campus).

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When: Thursdays.
Time: 14:00 - 14:45.
Place: Sala de Teatro, edificio Innogune -2  (San Sebastian Campus).

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Each month we will be offering a space for community prayer rooted in the time we are living at any given moment and attending to relevant religious and social milestones.

 

An experience of deepening freedom and love in Ignatian terms.

  • Exercises in daily life University of Deusto
    Advent and Lent.
  • Exercises at Loyola
    26-30 December. Early February (workshop).
  • Spiritual Exercises at Javier
    Spirituality is for the believer the path that brings them closer to God and includes prayer, intuition, reflection, action and understanding of who God is for us, manifested in Jesus. We offer you a few days of retreat in a natural environment to be silent, to stop, to contemplate life and to pray with the dynamics of spiritual exercise.
  • Weekend Exercises
    Personal praying experience in the form of a weekend retreat or more days to pray with the pedagogy of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
  • In daily life
  • Personal praying experience in daily life, guided by a companion with the methodology of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
    • The following Wednesdays from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM ->
      • November 20, 2024
      • November 27, 2024
      • December 4, 2024
      • December 11, 2024
      • February 5, 2025
      • February 12, 2025
      • February 19, 2025
      • February 26, 2025

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Offer at the Loyola Bilbao - Arrupe House Centre:

  • Exercises of initiation to the experience of God
    Informative meeting: 13th October at 19:00.
    More information on the following link.
  • Exercises at weekends
    More information on the following link.
  • Spiritual exercises in daily life
    These are aimed at anyone who is questioning what God wants from their life and what their path in life is. A process that helps to respond to the need to stop and review one's own life, to correct unwise decisions and to discover where to go in the future. They are a pedagogy to do this learning with the mastery of the Spirit of Jesus in the midst of everyday life.
    Weekly and personalised dynamics. For more information you can contact Edith Ulloa by phone on 944 004 004 or by email cloyola.bi@arrupeetxea.eus.

 

A tool to personalise the experience of faith and life.

Request an appointment by email: pastoral@deusto.es.

Deusto Campus Faith seeks to support the spiritual growth of students from many religious backgrounds and to educate students about diverse religious traditions.

Interfaith prayer room:

Located on floor 0 of the Centenary building on the Bilbao campus, open to all people for private prayer and spiritual time.

Request its use in the following form.

Deusto Campus Faith at the San Sebastian Campus wants to offer you a moment to stop and talk, to feel listened to and to move forward in the search to give meaning to the personal concerns and experiences that you are living.

If you wish, you can request an appointment by sending an e-mail to idoia.irigaray@deusto.es, or by coming in person to the Deusto Campus Faith office, Office 101 in the Central Building.

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Celebrations

  • Monday - 08:30 - Romanesque Chapel
  • Thursday - 08:30 - Romanesque Chapel
  • Wednesday - 13:30 - Romanesque Chapel
  • Thursday - 11:00 - Romanesque Chapel
  • Friday - 08:30 - Romanesque Chapel
  • Sunday - 20:00 – Residence Chapel

Tuesdays from 10:50 AM to 11:10 AM in the Gothic Chapel (St. Ignatius Oratory)

  • Blessed Francisco Garate, 10 September, Bilbao, Gothic Chapel 13:00
  • Course Opening, 25 September, Donostia, Loiola Zentrum 10:00
  • Advent-Christmas, 11 December, Bilbao, Gothic Chapel 13:00

Bilbao:

  • 12:30 - Chapel of Christ in the Ntra. Señora de Begoña School in Indautxu.
  • 20:00 - Church of the Sacred Heart in Alameda Urquijo Street.

San Sebastian:

  • 20:30 - Church of the Sacred Heart at 3, Andia Street.

An opportunity for those who wish to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation or go to confession. Make an appointment by sending an email to pastoral@deusto.es

An opportunity for those who wish to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation or go to confession. Make an appointment by sending an email to j.sagastagoitia@deusto.es

With the opening of the new chapel in the Antxieta building we will celebrate weekly Eucharist in the San Sebastian Campus on Wednesdays at 8:30 in this chapel.

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Weddings

Celebrate your wedding at the University of Deusto

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Weaving networks

Eliza Sarean

What is it?

Groups

Channels

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Eliza Sarean is a project that seeks to generate spaces for reflection, dialogue, training and sharing on the way of being of the Church in the network. Acción Católica General of Biscay and the University of Deusto collaborate in this initiative that responds to different realities that we have detected and that we highlight:

  • The challenges posed by the so-called digital society.
  • The need for new languages and new ecclesial presences.
  • The calls arising from the Synod of Bishops on youth.
  • The poor ecclesial presence in the network of networks, especially in our geographical area of influence.
  • The call to seek new ways of ecclesial collaboration.
  • The need for formation in this area.

These spaces mentioned above are a flexible proposal depending on the different groups we want to reach. We invite as many people as possible, including the following groups:

  • Church leaders: among them we would like to highlight pastoral workers, to whom we would like to offer a simple and useful proposal for reflection and the use of networks.
  • Ecclesial movements: we especially highlight those that are in direct contact with young people, such as Basque Country Scouts and other leisure time groups. We would like to provide group monitors and animators with some keys to help them in their task in relation to the group and communication with its users.
  • Educators: Kristau Eskola is the reference point for Christian education in Biscay with the centres of the diocese. We want to reach out to them as multiplying agents in society.
  • People interested in the subject, either for its faith dimension or for digital and sociological reflection.
  • University community.

To this end, and to provide a narrative to guide communication and understanding, we want to be present in different channels. The first channel is the virtual one. We invite you to follow us on our Instagram account: @elizasarean.

If you have any questions or comments, please write to us at elizasarean@gmail.com and we will respond as soon as possible.

We will also have spaces for meetings and dialogue at the University of Deusto. Check Eliza Sarean's meeting offer on the website and sign up for the activities.

 

Links of interest

Hospitalidad.es
Pastoralsj.org
Serjesuita.es
Otoi.eus
https://www.rezandovoy.org/