In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians....
The Gospel for the first Sunday of Lent tells of the three temptations Christ faced in the desert. Today's blog offers a somewhat different take on this testing....
We marked the beginning of Lent yesterday, so why a posting which begins with talk about an Advent theme? Read on and you may well be surprised....
Today's post on this Ash Wednesday, includes some words from Karl Rahner, SJ on dust as a "truly splendid symbol."...
Ash Wednesday is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God....
With Lent beginning tomorrow, Greg Kennedy, Sj offers us this poem for Shrove Tuesday....
After the terrible earthquakes last year in Nepal, Bill Robins, SJ along with some pre-novices and Jesuit scholastics made a treacherous journey to help build the Jesuit residence in Tipling - 2,100 metres above sea level....
We pass them every day on the streets of our cities. In Toronto there are over 5,000 homeless people living on the streets. What can be done to change the situation?...
Not only is the Ebola epidemic over in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea but local community involvement made the big difference....
Using an example from Mark's gospel, Rev. Robert Cooke shows that "What God values, what matters in the Kingdom is obedience, humility, compassion, sharing and forgiveness. That's what it means to belong in the Kingdom of God and it should be what it means to belong in the church."...
