Remembering My Mother
My Mom was no ordinary mom. She was a super mom. Her care for me me was extraordinary. I often wonder what my adult life would have been like with my Mom still living. ...
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Dec
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Dec
A Guide to Reading The Bible #43 – The Books of Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah
Zephaniah is best known for introducing the theology of the poor, the 'anawim. He condemns the pride of nations and teaches that salvation is possible only to a remnant – those who are imbued with poverty and lowliness of spirit....
01
Dec
Thank you, Father General!
Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach S.J. was born in 1928, joined the Jesuits in 1948, was ordained in 1961, and served as Superior General from 1983-2008. After resigning, he returned to his beloved Lebanon and became assistant librarian at the Université de Saint-Joseph in Beirut, where he died on 26 November 2016, a few days short of his 88th birthday....
30
Nov
The Journey: Letters home, 1961 – 1963 Part 9
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....
28
Nov
Time Out
There are times when our bodies tell us to rest a while. We do so but with a longing to resume our full lives....
27
Nov
Who By Fire?
Prophecies in the Book of Malachi can be read as meant for our own times, which appear more and more apocalyptic, if not messianic....
25
Nov
A Guide to Reading The Bible #42 – The Books of Amos, Obadiah, and Jonah
Christ recalled the Book of Jonah, when He referred to the conversion of the Ninevites as an example of repentance. He compared Himself to Jonah spending three days in the belly of the whale for He would spend three days in the tomb....
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Nov
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Nov
The Journey: Letters Home, 1961 – 1963 Part 8
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....
22
Nov
See No Evil
If St. Paul were alive today I suspect that he would still write about how the god of this age has blinded people to the light of the Gospel. In his day, slavery and public brutality were the signs of at best indifference to, at worse enjoyment of others' suffering; today it is less public but all the more insidious and occurs in prisons and nursing homes and other locales where one exercises power over another....