The Gifted Jesuit Henri Boulad

For so many years, Fr. Henri Boulad, S.J. , who turns 87 this year, has been speaking and writing about Christ and Christianity with a focus on the goodness of things created by the God of love. In his book "All is Grace" as well as many other books in French and Arabic, the Jesuit scholar has followed The Exercises of the founder of his order: Saint Ignatius of Loyola in which any action is measured according to the goodness it carries forward in a world of rivalry. Boulad's conferences and retreats focus on the hard questions of life such as the mystery of existence; human hope; a response to false predestination claimed by certain ideologies; and goodness of life. The humanist approach of Fr. Boulad can be linked to humanist saints such as St. Francis of Assisi; St. Thomas More; and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. 
Fr.  Boulad is gifted too with the ability to paint pictures showing a high level of imagination. This is clear in his book "Jesus yesterday and tomorrow" written in the 1990s.  Fr. Boulad will be visiting Toronto on Saturday October 28th. He will celebrate the 5:30 pm Mass at Transfiguration of Our Lord parish in Etobicoke followed by an authentic Middle Eastern dinner in the parish hall where he  will be joined by Cardinal Thomas Collins and many other bishops, priests, as well as hundreds of lay persons. For people in the Greater Toronto Area who wish to take part in the event, visit boulad.eventbrite.ca.