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    25 Sep

    Late in September a group of seminarians invited me along with them for a wine tour in the Niagara wine region. This was our "second annual" such excursion. Our "first annual" last fall was so much fun we decided to do it again this year. It was apparent to all that the spiritual director in me was coming out when I suggested that, instead of calling it a "wine tour" we refer to it as a "wine pilgrimage". After all, as I explained, "tours are for the unspiritual, pilgrimages for the spiritual."...

    28 Aug

    In the Catholic tradition just war theory was first articulated by St. Augustine. He set out criteria to justify going to war, and criteria for conducting war itself. The right to wage war assumed firstly that war was a last resort. All other means to resolve conflicts should have been exhausted. This is the most overlooked aspect of the "jus ad bellum" aspect of Just war theory, and is also a substantial point of difference with Islamic teaching on war....

    17 Jun

    June is a traditional month for weddings. Michael Stogre, SJ, shares with us the homily he preached as his god-daughter's wedding at Sharbot Lake, Ontario....

    25 May

    The moment when the meaning of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Conakry) and here in Liberia hit home to me was when I received a mobile call from the Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation, where I have been teaching for the past 15 months, asking me whether, as a Canadian expatriate, I wanted to be evacuated out of Liberia and away from the danger from this dreadful, infectious and untreatable hemorrhagic fever. I did not have to think about his proposal for long. I said no; I would stay here and face the danger with everyone else....

    11 May

    On 7 April 2014, Fr Frans van der Lugt, a Dutch Jesuit who had been living and working in Syria for nearly 50 years, was shot and killed in the city of Homs. He had refused to leave that city when it came under siege, choosing instead to remain and share the pain and suffering of its people. Writing for America magazine, Patrick Gilger SJ reflects on the life and death of a man who won the hearts of Syrians, using the words of one of Fr Frans's brother Jesuits in Syria....

    24 Mar

    To some the daffodil is just a flower. For many, it is a symbol of strength and courage. It says we will not give up. It says we will fight against cancer and we will win. Throughout April, compassionate volunteers across Canada work together to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. Inspired by this Sami Helewa wrote today's poem.Read more: http://www.cancer.ca/en/get-involved/events-and-participation/find-an-event-near-you/daffodil-month/?region=on#ixzz2uvnHnoTw...

    24 Feb

    As Fr. Joseph Tetlow S.J.--among others--has pointed out, the Examen spiritual exercise has come through hard times. While a number of authors over the years have tried to revive and enhance the exercise, no single approach has proven satisfactory in bringing it back to the important place it was meant to have according to the mind of St. Ignatius....

    23 Feb

    At the end of his blog entry - "Surviving Catastrophe" - Kevin Burns wrote: "What Philip Shano's article on the Restoration of the Jesuits provoked in me, and why I waded through these details, was that in addition to wanting the get the history clear in my mind, I wanted answers to another question. After 41 years of invisibility, how was it that the Society of Jesus managed so quickly to re-establish itself around the world?" . . how did the Ignatian vision live on? Today, Michael Stogre, SJ writes in response to those questions....

    16 Dec

    An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet. As far as we know, this was his only poem about Christmas....

    05 Dec

    n the last weeks of the Liturgical year and the first weeks of advent the emphasis is on the last things and the final coming of Jesus Christ. Parables exhort us to stay awake, keep vigilant, be patient and persevering. These attitudes and virtues are the very ones a hunter needs to be successful....

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