Happy New Year! A day that celebrates the feast of Mary, the Mother of God and marks the World Day of Peace. It is also the first day of 2016 - a year we hope will bring some peace to our troubled world....
As I encounter the dead and dying, young, old, and in between, I wonder about the living who remain: those of us who keep breathing, who keep walking into broken hearts, who have to continue to make sense of a messy world and a messy life within it. I wonder whether I'm living well. Today's post, originally published in The Jesuit Post, looks at what it means to "live well."...
I don't really like coffee. Once upon a time I would pass by a coffee shop and wonder how people could sit inside for hours. Don't they have better places to go? Then I had a conversion of sorts. I was living at the time in a Jesuit community just outside Toronto, but most days I traveled by commuter trains for work commitments in the city. I found myself a nomad in the city....
In today's poem, for igNation's Poetry Tuesdays, Monty Williams, SJ speaks of the journey that is our life....
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 the Gospel of St. John....
Throughout our cities and towns, homes and shops and streets are filled with light. Christmas is a celebration of light - a time when those who walked in darkness now see a great light....
In this fourth and final Advent reflection - the Nativity - we see God's providence at work in a world alienated from the greater good that desires the fullness of life for all....
For today's Poetry Tuesday, igNation offers a poem by Monty Williams, SJ....
The Winter Solstice - the shortest day and the longest night - celebrated around the world. Could we mark this time as a Holy Darkness?...
Erica Osko, one of the current Jesuit Volunteers, writes what Advent means to those who serve as a Jesuit Volunteer....
