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....
Outside a bank in Sligo, W.B. Yeats overlooks the scene in today's Poetry Tuesday....
As I look back on my life as a Jesuit I appreciate its deep continuities and underlying themes. Still there have been some unexpected moments, for example my most recent assignment as socius to the Novice Director. This blog is part of my reflection on how this fits into the unfolding of my Jesuit life under God's providence....
Ezekiel (Hebrew for may God strengthen") is the third of the major prophets of the Old Testament. Unlike his older contemporary, Jeremiah, who provides the fullest personal information of all the prophets, . . . His first prophecy is dated 593 B.C. and his last 571 B.C. Thus his prophetic ministry extended over twenty-two years."...
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....
To inherit the land" is a clipped way of saying one is rooted, one has found a living space where one's generations can find a home, a place of belonging. It is the desire of the refugee."...
In today's Poetry Tuesdays, Greg Kennedy, SJ, writes about Colombian taxi drivers and the Virgin Carmen...
But what is a saint? Maybe saints don't always feel close to God. Perhaps they struggle too with seeing the point of it all. Perhaps they are more like you and me than we realize. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
October 16, 2016 marks the 25th Anniversary of the work of Paul Baker, SJ with People with Aids. Paul writes: "I was so moved by Eric Jensen's article, Rodin's Magdalene and Christ ( igNation April 9, 2016) that I thought this letter needed a larger audience."The letter was read aloud at the PWA Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at the Marriott Hotel at Yonge and College on March 26, 2013.An interview with Paul can be found in the igNation post - Volunteer in The Spotlight (June 30, 2016)...
Baruch was more than Jeremiah's secretary, recording faithfully recording faithfully what was dictated to him by the prophet. Baruch shared in the prophetic role and was held in high esteem by later generations....
