ArtSuski

Artur Suski, SJ, is a Jesuit scholastic currently working in Guelph in high school and university chaplaincy, the Spiritual Exercises Ministry and the Hearts on Fire Young Adult Ministry.


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    02 Sep

    I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity to direct Ignatian retreats at the Jesuit retreat house in Guelph, Loyola House. I've learned a tonne about Ignatian retreats as well as about the complexity of the human experience. This includes the "characters" whom I've encountered. After I've given enough of these Ignatian retreats, I begin to see certain patterns in peoples' lives. I'd like to share with you a significant pattern that I've been noticing in a large part of my retreatants: it is the challenge to live a balanced life....

    11 Mar

    What's all this hype about "voluntary simplicity"? Duane Elgin's 1981 book Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich put a name to something that had already been gaining momentum in the preceding decades. Elgin noticed a societal trend: a good number of people were more and more fed up with the overtly commercial culture that began to inform almost all aspects of their lives. The "fatted calf" was no longer saved for the special occasion; it was making its way to the butcher's shop on a daily basis. Elgin noticed that a whole baggage of problems was accompanying this materialistic excess. To list some of the problems Elgin names: losing sight of what is truly most important (the interior life; friendships); the development of a culture of wastefulness, a drastic increase in environmental abuse (to sustain such a demand, something needs to give); and, closely related to the first one, an unhealthy craving for more stuff....

    11 Feb

    The Church and the secular world have different understandings of sin. When the media and other secular institutions talk about sin, they often equate sin with evil, with little deviation from this. The Church, on the other hand, from its earliest years has had a different understanding of sin....

    19 Feb

    As we begin Lent, we ask ourselves the question: what shall I give up for Lent? Or perhaps the flip side of the coin: what special thing shall I do during Lent? Lent is a time to 'pick up the slack' when it comes to our habits: we either want to work on purging those that get in the way of our relationship with God as well as our fellow brothers and sisters, or on developing those that help these relationships....

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