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11 Jun

Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Fiction. – Mark Frutkin’s Fabrizio’s Return.

If the only Jesuit you ever met was a character in a work of fiction in a library collection, what would this individual tell you about Jesuit life?In this series, IgNation blogger Kevin Burns, who is not a Jesuit, takes a look at some of the works that come up in a large urban public library when he entered the search term "Jesuit" and filtered it through the genre of "Fiction". The novels that popped up include some familiar names and some not so familiar Jesuits.This week: Monsignor Michele Archenti SJ, one of the main characters in Mark Frutkin's Fabrizio's Return....

10 Jun

A Bittersweet Feeling

It's a very bittersweet feeling to be graduating soon. The upcoming conclusion to my 4-year career at St. Paul's High School has me joyous, and on the other hand saddened. Choosing to attend this Jesuit high school in Winnipeg is probably the greatest decision I've ever made. There are so many aspects of the school that influenced me to become the person I am today, and for that I am grateful....

08 Jun

Brother Eugene McLaren, SJ

I've been a Jesuit for over 35 years. Most Jesuits have something unique about their personality, but the older Jesuit Brothers are true characters. I'm speaking of an older sort of Jesuit Brother, a man who didn't pursue an education and spent his life in menial labour and daily tasks. Nowadays, brothers can be scientists, astronomers, retreat directors, administrators, and so on....

04 Jun

Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Fiction. – Shusaku Endo’s Silence

If the only Jesuit you ever met was a character in a work of fiction in a library collection, what would this individual tell you about Jesuit life?In this series, IgNation blogger Kevin Burns, who is not a Jesuit, takes a look at some of the works that come up in a large urban public library when he entered the search term "Jesuit" and filtered it through the genre of "Fiction". The novels that popped up include some familiar names and some not so familiar Jesuits.This week: Sebastian Rodrigues S.J., the main character in Shusaku Endo's Silence...

03 Jun

Faith and Culture

I am a Creole of African descent. My ancestors came to Mauritius as slaves to the French settlers in the early 18th century, either from Mozambique, Madagascar or Senegal. They worked on large sugar cane plantations and sugar mill belonging to those settlers. Slaves of the same tribe were scattered over different plantations on the island to prevent communication and revolt. Slaves on a particular plantation had to imitate their master's language, i.e. French, to communicate, thus developing a patois language called Creole....

03 Jun

Tongues of Fire

Looking towards Pentecost, today's poem is by Gary Bowron, a Catholic layman, husband, father and teacher, and a member of the IJC Earth Institute, the ecological committee at Ignatius Jesuit Centre at Guelph....

28 May

Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Fiction. – Judith Rock’s The Rhetoric of Death

If the only Jesuit you ever met was a character in a work of fiction in a library collection, what would this individual tell you about Jesuit life?In this series, IgNation blogger Kevin Burns, who is not a Jesuit, takes a look at some of the works that come up in a large urban public library when he entered the search term "Jesuit" and filtered it through the genre of "Fiction". The novels that popped up include some familiar names and some not so familiar Jesuits.This week meeet Charles Matthieu Beuvron du Luc S.J., a character in Judith Rock's The Rhetoric of Death...

27 May

Do I Really Want to Make A Retreat?

You may not have made a retreat in a long while–perhaps you've never made one–but something seems to be stirring within: a longing to deepen your relationship with God, or the need to face some changed circumstance in your life. An announcement at the back of the missalette catches your eye, "Ignatian Retreats, Guelph, ON." You contact the registrar, make the arrangements, and, despite your misgivings, you actually show up!...

25 May

A Jesuit in Ebola Territory

The moment when the meaning of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Conakry) and here in Liberia hit home to me was when I received a mobile call from the Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation, where I have been teaching for the past 15 months, asking me whether, as a Canadian expatriate, I wanted to be evacuated out of Liberia and away from the danger from this dreadful, infectious and untreatable hemorrhagic fever. I did not have to think about his proposal for long. I said no; I would stay here and face the danger with everyone else....

21 May

Keyword: Jesuit, Genre: Fiction. – Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda.

If the only Jesuit you ever met was a character in a work of fiction in a library collection, what would this individual tell you about Jesuit life?In this series, IgNation blogger Kevin Burns, who is not a Jesuit, takes a look at some of the works that come up in a large urban public library when he entered the search term "Jesuit" and filtered it through the genre of "Fiction". The novels that popped up include some familiar names and some not so familiar Jesuits.This week: Père Christophe, the creation of Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden, is one of the main characters in his highly acclaimed novel "The Orenda."...