Ottawa-based author and editor, Kevin Burns is a frequent contributor to igNation. His latest book, Impressively Free – Henri Nouwen as a Model for a Reformed Priesthood and co-authored with Michael W. Higgins, has just been released by Paulist Press in the United States and by Novalis in Canada.
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"he reminds us that whenever we stop to look carefully, we will always be surprised. And this is also the grandeur that Gerard Manley Hopkins evokes throughout his poetry: “all this juice and joy”, “brute beauty”, “all things counter"...
What have we learned from history and how will future generations look on what we have done....
"For those strange almost three years that we lived through and that you now call history, Miles, being welcomed into that garden made such a difference for me."...
"Christmas never stops tugging at us, as this igNation series illustrates in its seasonal exploration of that strange dance between religion and popular culture and deeply grafted traditions, expectations, and associations. This is the time of year when sentimentalism overpowers even the most austere theological voices"...
"“There was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order.”...
"Gerard Ryan’s path into and through his vocation is uniquely his own and at the same time it is a broadly communal journey."...
"With the exception of the year he took his final vows, 1976-77 which he spent in Canada, Bill has lived and worked in Jesuit missions in India, Bhutan, and Nepal."...
"My vocation within my vocation is around the spiritual, and I think it is around the communal side of spirituality: how we are closer than we think, spiritually, if we can just get together as humans.”"...
In the second post of a five part series, author Kevin Burns talks with John McCarthy SJ. "“The best promotion of vocations to our way of life is by Jesuits who cherish their own vocation and reflect real joy in living it out.”"...
"In sharing their family and vocation stories these five Canadian Jesuits open a window into that mysterious call that in the words of their Superior General, “frequently appears in surprising ways at unexpected times and places, inviting those who seem least likely.” In the first post of a five part series, author Kevin Burns talks with Alan Fogarty, SJ....
