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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The most prominent Holy Door is at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Not all of us can make a pilgrimage to Rome. Thus, there are many sites of pilgrimage throughout the world. The Archdiocese of Toronto has nine Holy Doors. Eight opened on 13 December 2015. The final one opened at the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario on Saturday 07 May 2016. It was on that day that the Shrine opened for the 2016 season....
Paul Kalanithi is in the final year of his residency as an exceedingly successful neurosurgeon. His program director at Stanford had told him, Paul, I think you'll be the number one candidate for any job [for which] you apply." He had reached the pinnacle of residency. And then the bottom fell out from under him."...
In today's post, Philip Shano, SJ offers some thoughts on Victoria Day and makes a "modest proposal" for change....
The bond between mother and child is one of the most essential bonds in our lives, probably the most essential. No doubt that is why scripture often uses maternal language to describe the relationship God has with each of us. It's even stronger than the bond we have with our fathers. It exists across time and species. It's stronger than any tragedy that happens to people....
St. Ignatius of Loyola had a special connection with the Feast of the Ascension as we learn in today's posting....
In a month when we celebrate Mary, the Mother of God, and our own earthly mothers, it is fitting that the monthly universal prayer intention entrusted to the worldwide Apostleship of Prayer should be directed at the situation of women around the globe. Pope Francis encourages us to pray for, "Respect for Women: That in every country of the world, women may be honoured and respected and that their essential contributions to society may be highly esteemed."...
The Jesuits in English Canada will add to the ongoing conversation about the TRC report with a one day conference to be held at University of St. Michael's College on June 22, 2016....
On April 30, 2016, Daylight Savings Time celebrates it's 100th birthday. Philip Shano, SJ looks at the history of Daylight Savings Time as well as some of the advantages and disadvantage....
Why does St. George have his own special day? Why has the Church said that St. George is among those saints "whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose actions are known only to God?"...
