From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will be posted along with poems from contemporary writers. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic studying Theology at Regis College, Toronto....
From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will be posted along with poems from contemporary writers. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic studying Theology at Regis College, Toronto....
At 5:02 PM on Monday, 18 November 1929 an underwater earthquake occurred in the North Atlantic, registering 7.2 on the Richter scale. Two hundred and sixty-five kilometres to the north the people of the fishing communities that dotted the south coast of Newfoundland felt the ground tremors. They could never imagine what was to happen....
On St Ignatius Day, July 31, 2014, members of the Vancouver Ignatian family - comprised of the Jesuit Spirituality Apostolate of Vancouver, the Jesuit Alumni Group, the three Christian Life Community groups (Lighthouse, St Augustine, St Mark's) and the Society of Evangelical Life of the Heart of Jesus - met for a Mass celebrated by Father Rob Allore, SJ. Following the Mass, several members of this group spoke. Here are the remarks made by Dom Bautista of the Jesuit Alumni Group."...
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. We hear these words from the prophet Isaiah on the Second Sunday of Advent. These scripture verses offer a good summary of the Judeo-Christian call to be with those who are in need, to comfort and show compassion. This is probably best summed up by the well-known words from Matthew 25. "When was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?"...
Yikes! It's only the first week of December and I'm already suffering from an overdose of yule. It's only the first week of December and I'm already suffering from an overdose of yule. Barely a minute goes by before someone, from Mercedes Benz to Victoria's Secret, tries to twist my Christmas goodwill into cash at the till. Santa Claus is more common than the cold, and any turkey that survived Thanksgiving is sure to be done like dinner by December 25....
How cool is this: A transport system that gets people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour using currently available technology? It's called Hyperloop, the latest crazy plan from Elon Musk, the visionary who has so far given the world PayPal, The Tesla electric car, and SpaceX, the world's only private space program....
Today's poem is by Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ. He wrote the poem as he prepared to move to his new assignment at St. Ignatius parish, Winnipeg after nineteen years at Campion College, Regina....
Everywhere you go, someone talks about de-cluttering. What exactly does this mean? To some it may be sorting through their piles of paper and recycling or shredding it. To another it is getting rid of those extra clothes parked on hangers in the closet gathering dust. Then there are those who have collections, teapots and elephants of all shapes and sizes made from different materials. How about the bookshelves groaning with books that need to be aired, or passed on to eager book sale organizers.Stop and think about what clutter really is....
The 19th century Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, has a line in Hurrahing in Harvest that resonates with me as we come to the beginning of Advent. Hopkins says: These things, these things were here and but the beholder wanting." Although it's an autumn poem, that sense of beholding is a good grace for us to pray for in these opening days of Advent."...
