Shrove Tuesday 2022
"Whatever your traditions and practices, try to take time today to consider how you head into Lent."...
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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"Whatever your traditions and practices, try to take time today to consider how you head into Lent."...
"The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so speech discloses the bent of a person’s heart. "...
"The pattern for the rest of the 2020s is not the familiar routine of the pre-covid years, but the turmoil and bewilderment of the pandemic era. "...
"The words of Jesus in the Gospel today encourage mercy and forgiveness. David showed those qualities to a man – Saul – who wanted him dead. It is so tempting at times to take revenge on someone who rubs us the wrong way"...
"What about our trust in God? Does God reject us, or think that we are irredeemable? Of course not!"...
"I have yet to meet a perfect person, in leadership or any walk of life. It doesn’t matter whether we use the language of sin or crime or petty imperfections."...
"He arrested Blaise. As he was being led to prison, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet. Touched at her grief, he offered up his prayers, and the child was cured straight away"...
""Let's take a minute or two to ponder how we are experiencing the epiphany of the Lord."...
"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything."...
". . . and and, like the magi, may we return to our home, our churches, and our world by new ways."...