The World Peace Day initiated by Paul VI is celebrated each year on the first day of January. The Holy Father's message is sent to all foreign ministries of the world and it indicates the diplomatic concerns of the Holy See during the coming year....
An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
The Christmas story makes not just great literature but powerful Liturgy. Great literature helps us relive the past, but liturgy makes the past present, here and now, in Mystery / Sacrament / Body of Christ....
On November 29, Martin Scorsese held a private screening in Rome for his new film - Silence - about Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. Tom Michel, SJ attended the screening and wrote the following exclusively for igNation....
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
When you stop to consider it, we can see the great service that the truly poor offer those of us who are more well off....
The Camino of Santiago has grown in popularity over the last 20 years. Jeffrey Burwell,SJ shares his experience of this 840-kilometre trek across the ancient pilgrimage route in Spain....
The Fourth Sunday of Advent offers us the mystery of our identity. It calls us beyond ourselves into an intimacy with the ongoing Body of Christ ....
The sincerity of opening our hearts, making an effort to eliminate the secular world from our minds, and to give the Lord our full attention, is very important....
