For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today we visit Montreal, Quebec....
Not having one's "papers" in order in France was seriously frowned on. Or at least, that was so years ago were one stopped by the police--not unusual if the individual was neither white nor "French-looking"--and immigration papers and visas were either lacking or out-of-date. The results could be chilling, to say the least. I have no idea what the situation in France is now, and no doubt the police have lightened up a bit. Yet certainly in 1970, they were very serious about such matters. Very serious indeed!...
This is the fourth in a series written by Andrea Carandang, a student in the Concurrent Teaching Education Program at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, spending the summer as a Jesuit Volunteer with Mother Teresa Middle School in Regina. In this posting Andrea talks about the end of the school year and dealing with home sickness....
For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today's stop is Ottawa, Canada's capital city....
Of all the exotic places I might have done my final year of Jesuit formation (Tertianship), I was sent to Guelph right after I finished my theological studies. I arrived at the end of July, 1970, with Charlie Pottie, Peter LeBlanc, Len LeClaire, and a Slovak Jesuit. John English was the director of the program. It went till Christmas, and then we were missioned to various apostolates, I to Loyola High School in Montreal, to be Chaplain and to head the Religion Department. Gordon Rixon was one of the senior students who frequented the chaplain's office to bat the breeze....
For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today we stop in Pickering, Ontario....
Father Mike Stogre, SJ, died unexpectedly on June 24, 2015. At the time, he was assistant pastor of St. Mark's Church in Vancouver. Mike was a contributor to igNation and his last posting - May 21, 2015 - was about his Vancouver....
When I tell people I am going on a road trip this summer, I am amazed at their responses. Not since my teenage years have my friends so strongly encouraged me to flee all responsibility and go and do whatever I wanted. When I tell them that I am driving out west for ten days, they react as if I just explained the best way to prank the principal's car. Their prefrontal cortex shuts down; their fingers start to twitch as visions of rebellion dance in their eyes. Cool, cool, man. I'm happy for you," they say as they shake their heads to clear the visions, bending over to pick up their two-year-old crawling toward the stairs. And I, free from such suburban obligations, walk away from the conversation all the more resolute in my desire to go on this road trip. "I am doing this for each of you," I think to myself. I have to do it for them. I am going on this trip to see what it is like to live out of that freedom for a while, a freedom that can question who I am, that can still wonder just how big is the world."Reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), May 4, 2015....
Danny Gustafson, SJ, talks about some exciting new projects in Jesuits high school. This article is reprinted with permission from The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org.) May 1, 2015....
For over 400 years, Jesuits and their colleagues have had a presence in Canada. Today they work coast to coast - from Vancouver to St.John's. In this series igNation invites you to join us as we travel across Canada stopping at cities where there are Jesuit apostolates to read personal reflections about the city and the work being done there. Today we are in Toronto....
