This past Monday, August 11, people were saddened to learn of the tragic death of actor and comedian Robin Williams – an apparent suicide at the age of 63. Throughout the day tributes poured in on Twitter from actors who worked with him, directors who directed him, ordinary people who found his films made them laugh and cry.John Pungente, SJ, writes of his four minutes and thirty seconds with Robin Williams....
Tuesdays are poetry days in igNation. Today's poem, - Shells in Strand Hill - is set in Ireland and tells of "an eighty year old man waiting". It was written by Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ...
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by Monty Williams, SJ who teaches at Regis College, Toronto....
From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ, who is studying theology at Regis College in Toronto....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by John D. O'Brien, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic who is an instructor at Corpus Christi College in Vancouver....
During August 1971 I worked as a young priest and responsable at a L'Arche house in a small village, Ambleteuse. The surrounding area along the northern French coast, some ten or less kilometres from Boulogne-sur-Mer, is very beautiful. My memory of that time is richly filled with days at L'Arche, beautiful sunsets over La Manche, visits to Cap Gris-Nez, Normandy, and the never-ending beaches stretching away towards Belgium....
Guilty -- that's me -- of reading Young Adult novels instead of the latest literary fiction by the latest literary lion or lioness.I devoured Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, even Hunger Games (although I admit it got a little tedious by Volume Three), while nibbling demurely at some prize-winning tome in which generations of people where it snows a lot have been artistically victimizing each for ...
St. Peter Faber, a master of the Spiritual Exercises, was the first of St. Ignatius Loyola's six companions. Peter Faber and Ignatius met in Paris, where Faber had come to study after life as a shepherd on the mountains of Savoy. Peter Faber was the first of the companions to be ordained. Faber was sent to Germany in 1541, where he found the state of the Church in such disarray that it left his heart "tormented by a steady and intolerable pain." He worked for the renewal of the Church a person at a time, leading many in the Spiritual Exercises. Princes, prelates, and priests would especially find Peter Faber a gentle source of instruction and guidance leading to renewal.Between 1544 and 1546, Peter Faber tirelessly continued his work in Portugal and Spain. Throughout all of his mission years in Germany, Spain, and Portugal, Faber traveled on foot. His final journey in 1546 was to Rome where, exhausted from his labors, he died in St. Ignatius's arms at the age of 40....
Very Fev. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, (1907 to 1991)was the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, leading the Society in the realities of serving the Church and people in the post-Vatican II world. Arrupe was a man of great spiritual depth who was committed to justice.- See more at: http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-voices/20th-century-ignatian-voices/pedro-arrupe-sj/#sthash.Zk42waMV.dpuf...
