For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today we stop in Halifax, Nova Scotia....
Grief and bereavement - we all face them at various times in our lives. Maria Kelsey writes in today's posting about how young students she taught dealt with the death of a school friend....
The universal prayer intention entrusted to the worldwide Apostleship of Prayer by Pope Francis recognizes and asks us to pray for volunteers: That volunteers may give themselves generously to the service of the needy." I occasionally hear someone mutter something about how our contemporary North American culture is so selfish, with individuals turned in on themselves.That may be true of some people. But it is not my experience of our culture."...
Today is Ignatius Day, the anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola on July 31, 1556. Jesuits around the world celebrate Ignatius on this day. In honour of St. Ignatius, I thought I'd offer a few of my favourite images from Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, all of which help us to be more discerning in daily life....
For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today we visit Montreal, Quebec....
Not having one's "papers" in order in France was seriously frowned on. Or at least, that was so years ago were one stopped by the police--not unusual if the individual was neither white nor "French-looking"--and immigration papers and visas were either lacking or out-of-date. The results could be chilling, to say the least. I have no idea what the situation in France is now, and no doubt the police have lightened up a bit. Yet certainly in 1970, they were very serious about such matters. Very serious indeed!...
Niall Leahy, SJ focuses on" two questions which might help us to find a secure footing on a shifting terrain: first, what conditions does the internet need to provide to facilitate fruitful exchanges? And secondly, how do we, as readers and authors, best make use of these proposed conditions?" This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on April 23, 2015....
My favorite persecution story takes me to St. Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 14, 19-20). He and Barnabas are in Lystra, now in Turkey, where they have met with initial success, but others object and stir the crowd into such frenzy that the people stone Paul. They think Paul is dead so drag him out of the city, probably out of fear of the Roman Soldiers. The Roman authorities wanted no trouble, and usually settled problems by crucifying trouble makers. Paul regains consciousness and then goes right back to the city to continue his preaching!...
