Supper
To mark the three days of the 2014 Holy Week triduum, Greg Kennedy, SJ has written three poems. Here is his poem for Holy Thursday....
16
Apr
15
Apr
Dramatics and Its Effects
Dramatic productions have been a part of an ideal Jesuit education for over 450 years. Long before athletics were introduced, drama and theatre have been representations of what it means to be a student of a Jesuit school. As an actor who has been involved in drama at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, I have seen many aspects of myself grow and thrive due to this phenomenal program....
14
Apr
Lament
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....
13
Apr
Bird Song and Holy Week
Lord, help me to get through this day. From the slumber of sleep, these words greeted my day. Yesterday was full from morning till night. No respite in sight again today - or for the rest of Holy Week....
10
Apr
Planting Ignatian Seeds in Vancouver
The strum of the guitars greeted me as I walked in Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Vancouver on July 31 2009. At the invitation of GG Francisco, whom I recently met, Jesuit-trained alumni gathered to celebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius. He and a number of his friends from Ateneo a Filipino Jesuit university, were rehearsing the hymns for the celebration....
09
Apr
A Lenten Bookshelf: A Six-Fold Path: Week Six – Monty Williams, SJ on the Ignatian Path
This is the final week of the 2014 Lenten exploration of traditions. This week's journey is one "that begins when we realize that we are trapped in a creation – cosmic, human, and personal – that is disordered. The first stage of intimacy carries us to the realization that even here we are loved, protected, and held in God's love." (The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy – Following the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius by Monty Williams S.J. Novalis, 2009, and the basis of this article.)...
08
Apr
Finding Identity and Being Forgivingly Found
Faith is a way of seeing beyond and within realities. Is seeing believing or is believing a way to see? Faith allows us to see God in everything, and everything as rooted in God. This is where we and all human beings find their true identity rooted in God. So often we are looking for our identity elsewhere, sometimes in material things, often in other people. We want others to tell us who we are. Only God can do this....
07
Apr
Barcodes
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 Philip Chircop, SJ....
06
Apr
Lent
The joyful season of Lent approaches - a time of preparation for the great joy of Easter. We can celebrate only when we have prostrated ourselves in ashes. We can quench our thirst only when we have crossed the dry and parched deserts. We can feast only after the purification of fasting....
03
Apr
Noah – A Review
Is it myth? Is it history? Is it epic? Is it prophecy?It's all of the above, and then some! These are the generations of Titanic, which begat Lord of the Rings, which begat Harry Potter, which begat Gladiator, which begat Noah....