At 5:02 PM on Monday, 18 November 1929 an underwater earthquake occurred in the North Atlantic, registering 7.2 on the Richter scale. Two hundred and sixty-five kilometres to the north the people of the fishing communities that dotted the south coast of Newfoundland felt the ground tremors. They could never imagine what was to happen....
On St Ignatius Day, July 31, 2014, members of the Vancouver Ignatian family - comprised of the Jesuit Spirituality Apostolate of Vancouver, the Jesuit Alumni Group, the three Christian Life Community groups (Lighthouse, St Augustine, St Mark's) and the Society of Evangelical Life of the Heart of Jesus - met for a Mass celebrated by Father Rob Allore, SJ. Following the Mass, several members of this group spoke. Here are the remarks made by Dom Bautista of the Jesuit Alumni Group."...
How cool is this: A transport system that gets people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour using currently available technology? It's called Hyperloop, the latest crazy plan from Elon Musk, the visionary who has so far given the world PayPal, The Tesla electric car, and SpaceX, the world's only private space program....
Everywhere you go, someone talks about de-cluttering. What exactly does this mean? To some it may be sorting through their piles of paper and recycling or shredding it. To another it is getting rid of those extra clothes parked on hangers in the closet gathering dust. Then there are those who have collections, teapots and elephants of all shapes and sizes made from different materials. How about the bookshelves groaning with books that need to be aired, or passed on to eager book sale organizers.Stop and think about what clutter really is....
So WestJet is now going to charge $25 to lose, er, transport your bag to your destination.If you're surprised, welcome to modern travel, where the airline industry does everything it can to take the miracle out of flight.You already have to pay for a blanket and a pillow, so the real surprise is that it took so long for the airline to charge for basic baggage....
Today, in the last of three "summary" articles, IgNation contributor, Kevin Burns, looks through this collection of vivid autobiographical portraits to see if he can identify recurring Ignatian themes and images. This, then, is what he has learned about being a Jesuit from reading the statements of a small group of contemporary Jesuits....
At the beginning of each month I am delighted to receive in the mail a copy of The American Organist. This magazine is the journal of the American Guild of Organists, an organization with wide membership in the United States and throughout the world. Each issue of The American Organist features an article on a recently built pipe organ. During the past six years (2008 to 2014) the journal has featured four new pipe organs in Jesuit churches: Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola Chicago, Fordham University Chapel, St. Francis Xavier Church in New York City, and the Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C....
Each month, the Pope asks people throughout the world to join him in praying for intentions of global importance. One deals with a universal need; the other with evangelization. The universal intention for November is for lonely people: "That all who suffer loneliness may experience the closeness of God and the support of others." There is a general sense of loneliness in our culture. Although we have the tools to be more interconnected than ever before, we are often alone, and even lonely, in the midst of these opportunities. Many people experience a deep sense of loneliness, a painful longing for love and friendship that is absent from their lives. Mother Teresa described loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted as "the most terrible poverty."...
In the past few months IgNation has presented three sets of Jesuit portraits. Jesuits were viewed through the lens of fiction, through the filter of biography, and through the written equivalent of "selfies" – short autobiographical reflections by contemporary Jesuits.Today, in the second of three articles, IgNation contributor, Kevin Burns, looks through this collection of biographical portraits to identify some of the recurring themes and images. This is what he learned about being a Jesuit from a somewhat random and eclectic set of biographies in a search that began at the Ottawa Public Library....
Michael Czerny S.J. was director of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice in Toronto when, 25 years ago, the eight men and women at the Central American University (UCA) were assassinated. The then Provincial Bill Addley S.J. accompanied Michael to the funeral and, shortly thereafter, missioned him to El Salvador to help re-build the UCA. This is Michael's prayerful reminiscence....
