Yet Another Name
We ask: "What's in a name?" and the poet responds with an answer we might not have thought of....
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Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland....
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“Someone told me it’s all happening at the Zoo. I do believe it. I do believe it’s true.” Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, December20, 2019
On a deep and dark Winnipeg December day, Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ makes another visit to the zoo....
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Feb
On Viewing “The Two Popes”.
"The Two Popes" - available on Netflix - is built around conversations between Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis that took place shortly before Benedict's resignation....
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Lent in The Anthropocene i
The poet writes about one meaning of Lent's forty days which begin soon....
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Feb
Psalm 128
In "Reupholstered Psalms", Greg Kennedy offers us 50 psalms “sung new” that speak to our current.experience: consumerism, terrorism, climate change, forced migration, the extinction of species, intolerance… and the list goes on. The substance and structure – the bones – of the original works remain, but the outer appearance has been transformed. Like the originals, they are meant to challenge and console humans while exalting God. Novalis will publish Greg's book on March 1. This week igNation will publish 6 of the Psalms not found in the book....
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Feb
Psalm 127
In "Reupholstered Psalms", Greg Kennedy offers us 50 psalms “sung new” that speak to our current.experience: consumerism, terrorism, climate change, forced migration, the extinction of species, intolerance… and the list goes on. The substance and structure – the bones – of the original works remain, but the outer appearance has been transformed. Like the originals, they are meant to challenge and console humans while exalting God. Novalis will publish Greg's book on March 1. This week igNation will publish 6 of the Psalms not found in the book....
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Feb
Psalm 126
In "Reupholstered Psalms", Greg Kennedy offers us 50 psalms “sung new” that speak to our current.experience: consumerism, terrorism, climate change, forced migration, the extinction of species, intolerance… and the list goes on. The substance and structure – the bones – of the original works remain, but the outer appearance has been transformed. Like the originals, they are meant to challenge and console humans while exalting God. Novalis will publish Greg's book on March 1. This week igNation will publish 6 of the Psalms not found in the book....