Today's poem is one of an ongoing series of poems and photos from Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ's book "Prairie Childhood Snapshots - 1943 - 1958."

"Canada 150 & Me" is igNation's celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. Read what our contributors have to say about being Canadian and what it means to them. Read today the parable that is the "simple pointed beauty of a maple leaf."

Written by Evan Boudreau and reprinted with permission from The Catholic Register, December 3, 2016.

"the Catechism has a summary statement that should leave no doubt that it really means that our bodies will be raised, and in a glorified state, be reunited with our spiritual component and as at present to form a unit."

"As a novice I made a thirty-day retreat, along with my novice mates. That thirty-day experience of the Spiritual Exercises was certainly a memorable, important time for me. But the retreat that often comes to my mind was a relatively short, three-day retreat, which I made in Guelph in the summer of 2009."

For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them. David Creamer, SJ writes of Canada as a mosaic.

June is a happening month - exams are done; the dentist work is done; movies are watched, some of the liturgical changes happening at Ignatius College as a consequence of Vatican II are discussed and the new villa in Oakville is described.

In today's Poetry Tuesdays, the poet prays that "one and one and one is one."

"Canada 150 & Me" is igNation's celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. Read what our contributors have to say about being Canadian and what it means to them. Today we consider how we are all immigrants.

Tthe Beatitudes put suffering in a whole new light.The Beatitudes also put Jesus in a whole new light: they can be read as a self-portrait of Jesus. "