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Do we make judgements based on race and ethnicity? Lucas Shama asks: "How do we address a problem so large, when, we ourselves don't seem to harbor racist views or know racist people?" This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost,org) April 20, 2015....
I do, at times, consider leaving the Society of Jesus. Like when I hear a baby cry right at the end of the Eucharistic prayer, or unlock the doors of a neglected community car that isn't mine, or wake up alone. In today's post, reprinted from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Eric Immel, SJ, speaks of what it means to him to be a Jesuit....
In this article, reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) April 21, 2015, Damian Torres-Botekki, SJ, take an honest look at obesity and what it means for his life....
In today's post, originally published in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ looks at the way Facebook impacts on our memories of people and places....
I learn a lot from JVs and FJVs about what it means to be a Jesuit. I've had the privilege of serving as a spiritual director for a JV these past months. It's been a tough year for her. It had to be. She had to be ruined. How else will she actualize the radical reinvention that the Jesuit Volunteer Corps calls her to? That Jesus calls her to? But, she hasn't quit, despite the hardship, heartbreak, and inconvenience of it all. She has become stronger, wiser, focused, and prayerful.She and other JVs and FJVs have shown me time and time again that to be ruined is to be called forth, crushed by an experience of reality in four core values that can form the foundation of a life in faith that does justice. And, when they are ruined, I'm ruined. They ruin me by their witness of embracing inconvenience and always going further still. So, thanks, a lot, JVC. You didn't make it easier for me, but you weren't supposed to. You showed me that it's good to be ruined, and that I am.Reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), May 5, 2015....
Inspired by Yongsung Kim's "Peace Be Still", Jean Bertin Saint Louis, Sj writes about the struggle to find peace in our world....
Niall Leahy, SJ focuses on" two questions which might help us to find a secure footing on a shifting terrain: first, what conditions does the internet need to provide to facilitate fruitful exchanges? And secondly, how do we, as readers and authors, best make use of these proposed conditions?" This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on April 23, 2015....
Forget the big action super heroes movies of this summer - if you can. Instead take in Inside Out - a wonderful animated film from Pixar all about the five emotions ( Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear) that are in all of us. Want more? Read Jason Downer's article reposted from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) of June 25, 2015....
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 we stop in Pickering, Ontario....
When I tell people I am going on a road trip this summer, I am amazed at their responses. Not since my teenage years have my friends so strongly encouraged me to flee all responsibility and go and do whatever I wanted. When I tell them that I am driving out west for ten days, they react as if I just explained the best way to prank the principal's car. Their prefrontal cortex shuts down; their fingers start to twitch as visions of rebellion dance in their eyes. Cool, cool, man. I'm happy for you," they say as they shake their heads to clear the visions, bending over to pick up their two-year-old crawling toward the stairs. And I, free from such suburban obligations, walk away from the conversation all the more resolute in my desire to go on this road trip. "I am doing this for each of you," I think to myself. I have to do it for them. I am going on this trip to see what it is like to live out of that freedom for a while, a freedom that can question who I am, that can still wonder just how big is the world."Reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), May 4, 2015....
