The Glory of God
A celebration of our humanity. As St. Ireneus wrote: "The glory of God is humanity fully alive."...
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Jul
Eric Jensen, SJ, works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry at Loyola House, Guelph, Ontario. He also paints and writes. He is the author of Entering Christ's Prayer (Ave Maria Press, 2007)and Ignatius Loyola and You (Novalis 2018).
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Jun
The Beatitudes
Tthe Beatitudes put suffering in a whole new light.The Beatitudes also put Jesus in a whole new light: they can be read as a self-portrait of Jesus. "...
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Jun
Corpus Christi
Using as a starting point the quote: "In Baptism Eucharist is begun; in Eucharist Baptism is sustained.", Eric Jensen, SJ looks at the celebration of this feast in our faith lives today....
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May
Canada 150 & Me – Expo 67
For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them. Today's response looks at Expo 67 which was created to mark Canada's 100th birthday....
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Mar
Praying For Christian Unity
If there is such a thing today as the Ecumenical Movement, a movement for Christian Unity, we owe it, first of all to the Anglican and Protestant Churches among whom it began in the early twentieth century, a hundred years ago, out of which came the World Council Churches....
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Feb
Giving Up For Lent
On this Ash Wednesday we are asked that nagging question - what are we giving up for Lent?...
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Jan
What is Humility?
The Gospel for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Luke 14:1, 7-14) speaks about giving a banquet. The Eucharist is our banquet, the sacred meal that foreshadows the great Messianic Banquet when all the nations will be gathered around Christ the Lord. This gospel passage seems to be about humility, which is why the first reading was chosen (Sirach 3:17-20, 28-29). But is it really about humility?...
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Dec
Christmas 2016 – Literature and Liturgy
The Christmas story makes not just great literature but powerful Liturgy. Great literature helps us relive the past, but liturgy makes the past present, here and now, in Mystery / Sacrament / Body of Christ....
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Dec
Matthew’s Gospel and Advent
The first gospel is simply doing what the fourth gospel will do later, harkening back to the beginning: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
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Nov
Who By Fire?
Prophecies in the Book of Malachi can be read as meant for our own times, which appear more and more apocalyptic, if not messianic....