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....
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Apr
Greg Kennedy, SJ works as a spiritual director at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Reupholstered Psalms volumes I, II, and III; and Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints (Novalis Press).
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Mar
Shrove Tuesday
To mark the beginning of Lent 2014, Greg Kennedy has written a poem for Shrove Tuesday....
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Feb
Anniversary – Lent
One year ago today - February 13, 2013 - igNation posted it's first articles - one in each of our four categories - Our Culture, Our Daily Lives, Our Seasons, Our Spirituality. In honor of this first anniversary, we repost these first four articles. Please enjoy!...
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Jan
2021-12-13
From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will be posted along with poems from contemporary writers. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic studying Theology at Regis College, Toronto....
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Jan
Jim Profit, SJ
Father James Profit, S.J. died on Saturday, January 11th, 2014 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island after a struggle with cancer. He was in his 58th year of life and 34th year of religious life. In 1999, Jim was missioned to Guelph, Ontario and the farmland there where he would spend the rest of his life. There he was very creative in the context of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, always with a focus on ecological issues. He travelled to many parts of Canada and the world to lead Ignatian retreats with an Ecological focus, doing ground breaking work in the greening of the Spiritual Exercises. With others, he became a leader in a new consciousness that would articulate a fundamental responsibility of all persons and nations to respect and protect the earth....
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Dec
Christmas In An Age of Climate Change
As part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as contemporary poems. Today's poem, by Greg Kennedy, SJ, looks at the birth of Christ "in an age of climate change."...
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Dec
God
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 Greg Kennedy, SJ...
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Nov
Martha and Her Jar
sometimes prudence sucks sometimes the Spirit blows the whole welfare cheque at Macy's on perfume...
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Nov
11-Nov
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 Greg Kennedy, SJ...
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Nov
Invitation
In this month of November during which we remember our departed brothers and sisters, on this day after the Feast day of All Souls, a poem for this day by Greg Kennedy, SJ...