What does it mean that a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States took a year away from Harvard Law to teach welding and carpentry in a Jesuit mission in Honduras? I think it means a lot more than, he speaks Spanish."" Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
Jean Bertin St Louis SJ writes of the impact of Hurricane Matthew on his homeland of Haiti....
Today's post, from The Jesuit Post, speaks of the different ways our fathers "leave" us....
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
Happy World Friendship Day!Wait, World Friendship Day"? It sounds like an elaborate ploy by Hallmark to sell more cards or like one of those "holidays" created by Facebook fiat.And, while both thoughts are somewhat accurate, this holiday is far more meaningful than any greeting card." Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
I am in my last stage of Jesuit formation, a long and winding road that has taken up the better part of the last decade of my life. Throughout it all, I have always known what the arc of these years would be, but never the specifics: I'd learn how to pray, do some service work, study philosophy, do full-time ministry for a few years, then go back to school to study theology. Theology study was always held out as the final, culminating stage, and it is. But in some ways, I also understood this long process – and each successive step – as a series of inevitabilities: assumed, obvious, and unquestioned. This article is reposted from The Jesuit Post....
In 1971, Cardinal Bernardin, the General Secretary of the USCCB and Fr. Arrupe,the Jesuit General, announced their intention to create jointly an international center for justice and peace in Washington DC. Today, The Center of Concern is still active, influential and admired after 45 years....
In July of this year, a team of 15 students and 4 staff from St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg completed a service mission to El Salvador. This was the seventh mission to that country for St. Paul's. In their daily verbal and written reflections, students often spoke of their increasing friendships with the adults and children of El Salvador and with each other....
Is it possible that your back problems are really caused by some annoying instincts rather than by something physical? The answer to this question may surprise you. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
