Monty Williams, SJ, works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry, is a lecturer at Regis College, Toronto, and is on staff at the Jesuit Communication Project, Toronto.
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Our contemporary world is driven by four basic narratives. Narratives are those stories in which we try to understand our lives. The narratives of our post- modern age are security, meaning, liberty, and belonging. God enters those four basic narratives and opens them to a path of radical inclusivity where everything will be integrated in the love that is God. That entry of God into the human story is called Incarnation....
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....
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 Monty Williams, SJ...
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....
A group of retired British pensioners move to a retirement hotel in India and there are forced to come to terms with their lives, their pasts, their present, and their futures....
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 post is from Monty Williams, SJ...
The film focus on the lives of an elderly French couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers. They have a daughter who lives abroad. One day Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses one side of her body and Georges undertakes to look after her. The film is based on an identical situation that happened in Haneke's family. What interested him the most was exploring the question: "How do you manage with the suffering of someone you love?"...
A visionary sheik believes if he shares his passion salmon fishing with his desert people he can enrich their lives. To turn what seems an impossible dream into reality he enlists a pragmatic British expert who thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. For political reasons he is conscripted against his will into the project and discovers in that journey his life changing....
The film tells the story of Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society. He meets Lancaster Dodd, a leader of a religious movement known as "The Cause" and becomes a follower. The film traces their mutual dependency in their search for identity through a spiritual quest....
