“Give somebody a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime”. A Jesuit friend of mine added a twist to that by saying “And what if the fish are poisoned and you find out that there is a factory upstream that is polluting the water”....
" . . it is in these “God Encounters” that the integration works both ways. The other transforms you as you transform him."...
A spring day at the English Garden in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, inspired this canticle from the poet/...
"As a Jesuit I now understand that God was sharing God’s self with me through the enormity of God’s creation."...
"Before I look at any particular vocation as a Jesuit, I tend to look at my general vocation. Hard work, team work, commitment, reward after hard work ...
On July 31, 2018, Fr. Erik Oland, Sj will beome the first Provincial of the new Canada Province. This post - written for the Jesuits.org web site and reprinted here with permission - was written when he was Provincial of the Jesuits in French Canada....
Today’s post is an English translation of an article published in JÉSUITES CANADIENS 2018. The article was both written and translated by Pierre Bélanger, SJ ...
As the Jesuit in Canada Province is formed, we are reminded that " . . . we remain to a great extent two solitudes. The cultural and historical divide is deep and not easily bridged."...
"In July 2018, for the first time in more than ninety years, there will be a single and bilingual Canadian Jesuit province. To prepare for this historic occasion, it is helpful to reflect on current Jesuit activities in Canada and Haiti, which will be part of the new province."...
