From late one May afternoon till early morning the next day - some 12 hours later - four Jesuits were part of a Hollywood film - Downsizing - being filmed in Toronto. The experience was an unexpected time of evangelization....
The third decree of the 35th General Congregation sports the subtitle: Sent to the Frontiers", and arriving at Dajabón I thought to myself, "now we're living out the letter!" I quickly realized, however, that the wild-west images of heroic frontiersmen wresting justice and livelihood from the surrounding uncivilized darkness is Hollywood romanticism of the most exaggerated variety. The frontier is not the stage-set where the good guys fight a great fight and inevitably carry the day. Rather it's the ambiguous place where, due to its fluidity and extremity, anything can happen, including tremendous failures."...
There are invisible people in the city where I live. There are also many invisible people in your town or city. No, they are not hidden by Harry Potter's invisibility cloak! Their physical appearance means that most of us who pass by tend to avert our eyes and basically ignore them, or even treat them as less than human....
There can be many different meanings to the verb "tap" as we see reflected in this poem/prayer....
The most prominent Holy Door is at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Not all of us can make a pilgrimage to Rome. Thus, there are many sites of pilgrimage throughout the world. The Archdiocese of Toronto has nine Holy Doors. Eight opened on 13 December 2015. The final one opened at the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario on Saturday 07 May 2016. It was on that day that the Shrine opened for the 2016 season....
Paul Kalanithi is in the final year of his residency as an exceedingly successful neurosurgeon. His program director at Stanford had told him, Paul, I think you'll be the number one candidate for any job [for which] you apply." He had reached the pinnacle of residency. And then the bottom fell out from under him."...
Once known as The Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation follows in the tradition of similar revelation books in Jewish writings....
Today's post looks at the connection between our conversations with God and our conversations with our friends....
Smartphones are supposedly ruining our lives and making us incapable of having real conversations. But phones, like other modern means of communication, are tools. We can surely misuse them, but we can also use them to create meaningful connection. Reprinted from The Jesuit Post....
Does where Mass is celebrated - a large church or a small chapel - have an impact on us? Today's post was originally published in The Jesuit Post....
