Upon returning to Winnipeg's famed English Gardens after some thirty two years, Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ reflects on gardens. Thoughts of famous paintings of gardens give way to memories of his mother's massive garden of vegetables and flowers....
For the past three years I have lived in Liberia, a small country in West Africa, with the only other Jesuit in the Republic. Let us call my Jesuit confrere George (not his real name). Over the past year and a half George and I have lived through the Ebola emergency. This was a challenging time, one that drove me both to pray more and to wash my hands frequently in chlorine solution.Now George and I face a new situation....
Writing from Regina, Stephanie Molloy talks of transition - "the only place that real change occurs." Transitions can be disconcerting, scary and demand faith. But remember God blesses us in each season of our lives....
With this re-post, igNation welcomes Anglican priest, Robert Cooke with his tongue in cheek list....
Pumpkins are for Christmas? Christmas trees are for Halloween? Paul Sullivan looks at why the madness begins earlier each year....
In the summer of 2015, a group of students from Winnipeg's Jesuit High School travelled to El Salvador to work in the small village of San Jose Las Flores. One of those students, Sean Jackson, reflects on his experience....
We all can think of some overwhelming occurrence in our lives appearing like a wall too daunting to climb: the death of a parent, diagnosis of a disease, facing an addiction, loss of a job, the realization that your first child makes you a parent, admitting you feel alone. Somewhere hesitation sets in. Perhaps even apprehension. Can I do this? Am I the right person to accomplish this? All questions we can relate to as Damian Torres-Botell, SJ, explains in this article originally posted on The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org)...
Jesuit Volunteers Canada (JVC) is a formation program, where young adults live out the values of Christian spirituality, social and eco-justice, community, and simple living. This Sunday Jesuit Volunteers Canada invites you to join in supporting JVC DAY. It is a day that people from across Canada will pray with us in hope that young men and women will be inspired to serve Christ and to discover more deeply his call for them through JVC....
In the fall of 2014, Denis Costa, began teaching at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg. Now he reflects on that first year at the Jesuit high school....
In this article, originally posted in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), Brendan Busse, SJ , writes of the refugee crisis and what the Church is doing and – more particularly - what you can do about it....
