On Becoming a Giraffe
Danny Gustafson, SJ, talks about some exciting new projects in Jesuits high school. This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org.) May 1, 2015....
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My (insert name of city here) is ….. (8)
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 are in Toronto....
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Thoughts on Attending Pope Francis’ Easter Mass.
On Easter Sunday, 2013, Pope Francis said his first Easter Mass since his election as Pope. Kevin O'Shea recalls his trip to Rome to attend this Mass and shares the thoughts that the Mass brought to mind....
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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 Thunder Bay, Ontario....
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You Have to Read This Article About Social Media and Clickhole
Clickhole.com is a pop social media site whose articles are shallow, quizzes are arbitrary, and advice pieces are not relatable. And that is why I'm a huge fan of it!Clickhole is an affiliate of The Onion – the satirical news site – and like The Onion, all the content on Clickhole is fake. Yet, despite consisting of made up material, Clickhole carries the sting of criticism found in good satire.This article originally appeared in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on March 24, 2015....
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Invisible Things
Sacraments are like weather vanes; in the sacraments we make invisible things visible. I held the mic. That's about it. I had been asked to serve as an acolyte for the diaconate ordination of eight Jesuits here in Madrid. During an ordination liturgy the presiding bishop moves around more than usual -- sit, stand, kneel, from one chair to another and back again. It's like a byzantine improv game and mic-stands don't walk. So, that was my job. I was a big bearded mobile mic-stand all dressed in white. I held the mic so that everyone else could hear what the bishop was saying and pray along in a language I still struggle to understand.This article originally appeared in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on March 31, 2015....
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The Fault: Natural Disasters, Poverty and Violence
Images of crisis fill our newsfeeds. Nepal? Crisis.Mediterranean? Crisis. Baltimore? Crisis. What are we seeing? Natural disaster? Irresponsible ship-captains and illegal humans? Violent thugs? I grew up in California, I know a bit about earthquakes, so I'll start there.We're seeing the effects of our faults.Faults naturally rupture and shift in order to relieve tension in a constantly changing world. What we see in each of these circumstances could rightly be considered a fault in this sense -- a momentary rupture, a temporary crisis, a tragic accident. Much commentary will focus on these stories as a passing crisis (pushing traffic and trending hashtags). But what is happening here is more than a crisis; this tremor is more than a trend, this violence is more than a viral video. To actually understand what's happening when a fault ruptures we must ask: What's below the surface?Reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuuitpost.org), April 29, 2015....
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Blessed Archbishop Oscar Romero
Over the next seven days, we will see ordinations at Our Lady of Lourdes in Toronto, the great Feast of Pentecost around the world, and in Rome on Saturday the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero. In today's post, Bert Foliot, SJ writes:"In beatifying Romero, the Church is offering us all a model of how, by listening to the Holy Spirit, we too can be transformed."...
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My (insert name of city here) is ….. (1)
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. Our first stop – Vancouver....
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Can I Ask a Very Personal Question? (Fact and Opinion, Right and Wrong
The scenario is always the same. It's early in the semester, just a few days into my Introduction to Theology class. We are discussing the existence of God, which has always struck me as a logical place to begin a class about, well, God.I want to ask you a very personal question," I begin, "but you have to agree to answer it before I tell you what the question is. Any volunteers?"" This article originally appeared in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org) on March 5, 2015....