Philip Shano, SJ has many years of rich and varied experience working with Ignatian spirituality: teaching, writing and using it in his ministry. He resides in the Jesuit community in Pickering, Ontario.
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"Would we be able to hear John the Baptist today? Are we able to hear the prophetic characters in our culture and era? Are we able to open our ears and hearts, to really and truly hear the cries of people such as John? "...
"Advent’s wakefulness is not mere a movement in our hearts. It must make us alert to all that is happening around us. "...
"The contemplation on Christ the King is a wonderful exercise which makes abundant use of the imagination in inviting us to pray with our dreams to do great things in the name of God."...
Mother Teresa said: "“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”...
"Perhaps the invitation from Jesus to stay alert and awake can benefit from logging behaviour."...
"Remembrance Day, provides us with an opportunity to broaden our understanding of the war dead. Let's also broaden our understanding of the many things stirring within the hearts of those who came home from the battlefield."...
"Where is your heart? We are in that time of year when every charity imaginable is asking for money. We cannot give to all. Where is your heart? What will be your mite?"...
"'“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.'"...
"By commemorating our faithful departed at the daily Mass, we are acknowledging the same thing – that they are present to us, in a new way."...
"Whatever their quirks or oddities, it is helpful for us to know that there is a special saint who knows precisely what we struggle with."...
