"At the end of July, a flotilla of canoes left Sainte-Marie among the Hurons on Georgian Bay. The 850-kilometre, 25-day voyage terminated at Kahnawake on the outskirts of Montreal on August 15. The canoeists visited the Ottawa area from August 9–11. More than thirty Indigenous, Jesuit, English-, and French-Canadian paddlers took part in the Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage. The men and women participants ranged in age from 18 to 67."...
Standing in a place where you know hundreds of men from your own country fought and died in battle for a cause that wasn't even their own fills you with a pride unlike anything else. However, what made these moments even more special to me, were the actions of the townspeople who lived near the historic battlefields....
?The Junior is proud of his academic achievements and presents a ‘report card’ in the June 5th letter. It is clear there is a need for a Jesuit Junior to be adaptable and available with the last minute change to be sent to Wickwemikong, and the slow revelation about the philosophy studies. In the letter from Wickwemikong he reveals his new endeavour, playing the guitar. In the post script he tells the good news of his mission to philosophy studies in Spokane, Washington."...
On November 8th, 2016, Frank Obrigewitch, SJ wrote of his visit to Sligo Hospital in Ireland. Today he revisits the hospital....
For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them.Today a reflection on the numbers one, five and zero....
"A natural question is about how we expect God to appear to us. My experience is that God usually surprises us. God will not announce God-self and draw arrows and offer bright lights to say, look here. It is me, God. We have to discern. We must ponder the prayer experience in the context of life and the situation of our culture."...
In 1992, Pope John Paul II authorized a new Catechism of the Catholic Church . . . This series will try to explain various teachings of the Catechism in a simple way that hopefully will be easily understood ....
St. Bonaventure University "(then a college) is where Merton taught for several terms all the while struggling with the path he might take. Poet? Professor? Volunteer at Catherine de Hueck Doherty's Friendship House in Harlem? Join a religious order? Become a Franciscan?"...
For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them. For some being Canadian meant opportunity and possibility - for others misery and exclusion....
"Despite having to ‘catch up’, the Junior does not seem ‘stressed out’ about the end of term papers and exams in the April 10 letter. He is glad to be getting ‘healthier and healthier’. Plans for another set of plays and getting ready for the gardens are central to the letter. Interest in the liturgical changes surfaces again in this letter regarding Easter liturgies. Easter is the focus in the April 24th letter, with a description of the successful production of their plays."...
