As I grow older, I become increasingly aware that there is injustice in the world--big time. Unfortunately, I haven't a clue what to do about it.The disproportion between my intellectual awareness and my practical cluelessness makes me uneasy--so much so that it is increasingly difficult to ignore. I really must do something about it. But what?That's where the Jesuit Forum comes in....
Today's poem is by Grace Colella who teaches music with TCDSB and is a part-time student in the MAMS program at Regis College, Toronto....
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. As Philip Shane, SJ writes in today's post, "This Thanksgiving Day provides us with another reminder of God's countless gifts and unlimited goodness, reasons for a constant stance of gratitude."...
What would happen if a grade six teacher assigned an A plus to every student in the class? The sharp and the dull; the industrious and the lazy; the studious and the sloppy--all receive a big, fat A plus. My teaching career was short, only two years. That, however, was enough time to enable me to predict the outcome of this pedagogical experiment....
The Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice was established in 2007 to support education and engagement on a variety of social and ecological justice related issues. The Forum focuses on small group discussion and emphasizes listening and developing trust in others as the way to connect, understand and become active in confronting injustices....
A poem about a Jewish family who celebrates Passover while living in exile in Egypt....
In May 2014, igNation launched a series exploring the Jesuit identity as it is expressed in works of fiction: "Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Fiction". This was followed by the series "Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Biography". In these two series we hear what others think about what it means to be a Jesuit – in fiction and in biography. This new series – "Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Autobiography" – will explore what it means to be a Jesuit today – as told in their own words by Canadian Jesuits. The articles – written for igNation –are as different in expression and format as the men who wrote them. Today's Posting - On Being a Father of Many and of None - is by Paul Robson, SJ...
We've all had that moment of fear when asked to do something creative. Fear tells us that if we risk expressing something we are not quite sure of, others will tear it down simply because they don't understand. This pattern leads us to avoid trying new things. It is a pattern that students at Regina's Mother Theresa Middle School are trying to break....
There are very few people who realize what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves entirely into his hands, and let themselves be formed by his grace. St. Ignatius, whose feast we celebrate today, wrote that in 1543. Four hundred and seventy-one years later, that fundamental Ignatian insight that God is far more active than we are often willing to notice or trust is still valid -- and, inasmuch as it has formed the current successor of Peter, very much at work in the Church. This article was first posted on Patheos (www.patheos.com) on July 31, 2014....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by John D. O'Brien, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic who is an instructor at Corpus Christi College in Vancouver....
