17 Aug

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. An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....

15 Aug

Acting is doing. It is not talking about, thinking about or feeling about. Acting is doing, and listening is a doing. In an earlier entry I described the profound and challenging experience I had in a two week True Acting Institute based on the Meisner Approach under the direction of Larry Silverberg. In this entry I want to provide just a few specific examples from the vast array of insights/experiences about true acting that I received. If you wish to have a complete account of the content of the Institute, I encourage you to read Larry's own books on the Meisner Approach. Like the little book of St. Ignatius Loyola on the "Spiritual Exercises", Larry's books are primarily a series of exercises designed to produce an experience. And while reading is helpful in both cases, it is only the doing that can transform....

14 Aug

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....

13 Aug

Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. So taught Sanford Meisner (1905-1997), usually known as Sandy. Sandy was one of the major creative adaptors of Stanislavski method acting to American stage and screen in the last century. He developed his own "Meisner Technique". To be a true actor one has to be profoundly rooted in being a true human being. Both involve "living truthfully" - the former involves living truthfully under imaginary circumstances; the latter involves living truthfully under real circumstances....

12 Aug

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. An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....

11 Aug

At the beginning of August, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is participating in the programme "Ten Days for Peace" sponsored each year by the Catholic Church in Japan. Here is some of the reflection he is sharing on that pilgrimage:...

08 Aug

n the flowering memory of a mystic India singing birds on peepal* trees bring love's melody to me....

05 Aug

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 Monty Williams, SJ...

04 Aug

Leafing through some recent issues of Science and Nature underline the truth of such awareness. All Greek to me are such titles as Antidiabetic actions of a non-agonist PPAR ligand blocking Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation or On-demand single-electron transfer between distant quantum dots. Furthermore, I am totally dependent on so many people be they doctors, mechanics, dentists, pilots, cooks, plumbers or accountants....

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