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May 22, 2020

MURIAS Jorge (Father)

21 March 1941, Buenos Aires - 12 August 2019, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Fr Jorge Murias SCJ

Father Jorge A. Murias was born in Buenos Aires on March 21, 1941. The young Jorge studied at San José school from 15th to 17th, and this is there where Jorge heard God’s call. To be faithful to it, he had to bravely face down the opposition of his parents.

He finished secondary school in 1958, and supported by the Congregation he traveled to France. He entered Novitiate in France, near Pau in 1959 and later began his scholasticate, near Bordeaux. His parents imagined he was pursuing an important career at some University in Europe. “Until one day his mother – (who else but his mother?) – decided to find out the whole truth for herself, and took the only effective means: she set sail for Europe to see for herself. And she saw. She saw her son, a seminarist of several years, already committed to Christ for the sacred life of the altars. We don’t know if she felt disgust or anger, but we assume that she did what any mother would do in these circumstances: she hugged her child no matter who he had now become. And thus it happened.”(in “FVD“, Third Series, No. 6, August 1966, page 10)

On June 17, 1966 he was ordained a priest, in the chapel of the Community of the then Apostolic School at Mendelu. And after ordination he returned to Argentina and worked for many years in pastoral work in San José School in difficult times. He was Rector of San José College from 1974 to 1982.

From then onwards, the Congregation authorised him to do pastoral work in the diocese of San Isidro. His pastoral activity unfolded in the academic life of the Catholic University of Argentina as a professor of Philosophy and Theology and director of the Centre for Spirituality and Pastoral Action. In this University he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic Time and Eternity in Charles Peguy in 2000.

His other pastoral eld was the Chapel of the Memorial, near Pilar, in the diocese of Zárate-Campana. In this chapel he celebrated Mass on Sundays and from there he directed the various movements he organised: Christian Movement for Rugby Players, the Christian Polo Movement and especially CELAFOR: Latin American Training Centre. CELAFOR organises different leadership schools: ELUL (leadership school for Latin American university students), ELAL (Leadership school for Latin America, which is oriented to adults and lasts only 4 days), and ELCAL (Leadership School for Change in Latin America).

In recent years, he continued with his work, along with new projects, such as the accompaniment of the “Espartanos” (a rugby team formed by prisoners). Giving up the chapel of the Memorial caused him much sadness. Healthwise, he experienced mobility difficulties because of some muscle aches he suffered. In his last checkup he was diagnosed with an extended tumor, for which treatment was not possible. Once he accepted the situation, he handed it over to the Father, saying his last Fiat Voluntas Dei on August 12, 2019, at 78.

The funeral Mass was celebrated, the next day, in the Memorial Chapel, presided over by Mgr. Martín Fassi, auxiliary bishop of San Isidro, accompanied by some 15 priests, among them the Betharramite fathers, Agín, Ramos and González; and a multitude of lay people. Most of them were young adults, (the fruit of a profound apostolate) who expressed their gratitude to God for the life of Father Jorge, in the celebration, while feeling in his going, very happy for what they had received.

Daniel González scj

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