Discovering fire for a second time
We are a group of friends who believe that Christ’s love is setting the world alight and that we, as young people, are called to make Christ’s presence felt, and Christ’s message known, to people of our own generation.
Living together in Christian community, we pray together, eat together, play together, share our burdens together. While Christ calls us to deepen our bonds of love with one another, he also calls us outward into the wider world to share the Good News of the Father’s eternal, unlimited, unconditional love.
We do this through a number of Christ-centred projects, which we facilitate for one another and our peers, who, together, form the Faber Community at large. These projects include retreats, a monthly celebration of the Eucharist, a weekly guided meditative prayer session, and more!
Under the wise guidance of Fr. Myles O’Reilly SJ, who founded the Companions in 2018, our prayer formation is informed by Ignatian spirituality, the model of Christian spirituality developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.
Thus informed, we’re placed to pass this rich spirituality on to our peers, the aim of which is always to facilitate encounter with the living, healing, human God, Jesus Christ.
The Faber Community is an open community. Newcomers are always welcome:
Nothing is more practical than finding God,
That is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings,
What you will do with your evenings,
How you spend your weekends,
What you read,
Who you know,
What breaks your heart,
And what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
Pedro Arrupe SJ
Find God in all things
Let’s face it, especially dogs
The Faber Community is passionate about building a more just and loving society.
We will always emphasise the kind of active, open-hearted Christianity that inspires radical, positive change, and which motivates the lives of healers and leaders like the well-known Jesuit, Fr. Peter McVerry.
“When Jesus found someone whose dignity as a human being, a child of God, was being undermined or denied by the attitudes of society and the way in which they were treated, then he had to respond if he was to be true to the revelation of God that he came to bring.
He challenged the attitudes of the society that looked down upon such people, and he challenged the structures that kept them in their marginalised place.
He broke the Law, and supported his disciples who broke the Law, when that Law did not allow him to reach out in compassion.”*
Peter McVerry SJ