Tipling Revisited
Bill Robins, SJ takes us back to Tipling in Nepal nine months after the building of a Jesuit residence, chapel, and kitchen/dining room....
15
Dec
14
Dec
The Journey: Letters Home, 1961 – 1963 Part 11
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....
13
Dec
Please….NO MORE HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
When God sent His Son to be born on Christmas Day, I doubt He ever expected the frenzy that consumerism would bring with the celebration of this event....
12
Dec
Christmas Time
Where are all these people rushing to? And why are they in such a hurry? What might they be missing?...
11
Dec
Death of a Ladies’ Man
When Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen died recently, an Irish Jesuit pointed out that his surname -– Cohen – actually means "priest" in Hebrew. His favourite book was the Bible. And the word with which he'll always be associated is "Hallelujah", a wonderful word, combining two Hebrew words, "hallelu" (=praise ye), and "Yah" (=the Lord)....
10
Dec
Advent 3: Moments of Joy
The Trinitarian God we acknowledge is a community of joy and the purpose of creation and redemption is to share in that joy. Everything in the Christian life is designed to carry us to that joy....
09
Dec
A Guide to Reading The Bible #44 – The Books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.
With the Books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (a Jewish tradition says that the Prophetic office died out in Israel with the third book), we come to the last of the Minor Prophets and also to the last, post-exilic period of prophecy....
07
Dec
The Journey: Letters Home, 1961 – 1963 Part 10
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....
06
Dec
Matthew’s Gospel and Advent
The first gospel is simply doing what the fourth gospel will do later, harkening back to the beginning: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
05
Dec
Ceding to “Convention”
Today's offering for Poetry Tuesday looks at what acceptance can mean in our lives....