Negotiation
Negotiation was first given as a homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, July 24, 2016....
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Aug
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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Chaos is Come Again.
In today's post, following on the burning of Fort McMurray, Eric Jensen, Sj reflects on the challenges now facing us....
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Rodin’s Magdalene and Christ
During a recent visit to Montreal, the city of my birth, the city of my youth, I took in the exhibition of Auguste Rodin's work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. It was a little like being in his studio, discovering how the artist worked in clay and plaster, marble and bronze. I saw several versions of his famous Thinker. But when I finally came upon his marble sculpture of Mary Magdalene embracing the dying, crucified Jesus, I was deeply moved....
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What Happened to Jesus in The Wilderness ?
What exactly happened to Jesus during those forty days and what does this mean for our own Lenten journey? These are questions addressed in today's posting....
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A 90-Second Homily
Eric Jensen, SJ offers a quick thought on the Apostle Thomas and the difference between faith and belief....
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Homily in a Nutshell – from the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Bread, like everything else, has a history. It goes back 10,000 years, to when the first wheat began to appear in the Middle East, which led to cultivation and farming, to villages and towns, and eventually to the great cities of Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilization. . . I want to focus on the Bread of Wisdom and the Bread of Life...
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Aug
The Sermon on the Mount
If you were to go to the Holy Land, you could visit the Mount of the Beatitudes and see the geographic setting of the Sermon on the Mount. If you were to turn also to a Bible, especially one with paragraph headings, like the Good News Bible, you would find, not a sermon but a collection of teachings: Teaching about the Law, Teaching about Anger, Teaching about Adultery, Teaching about Divorce, Teaching about Vows, Teaching about Revenge, Teaching about Charity, Teaching about Prayer, Teaching about Fasting– three chapters (5, 6, and 7) filled with teachings....
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Popes and The Press
Of all the exotic places I might have done my final year of Jesuit formation (Tertianship), I was sent to Guelph right after I finished my theological studies. I arrived at the end of July, 1970, with Charlie Pottie, Peter LeBlanc, Len LeClaire, and a Slovak Jesuit. John English was the director of the program. It went till Christmas, and then we were missioned to various apostolates, I to Loyola High School in Montreal, to be Chaplain and to head the Religion Department. Gordon Rixon was one of the senior students who frequented the chaplain's office to bat the breeze....
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My (insert name of city here) is ….. (6)
For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today's stop is Guelph, Ontario....