Don't dismiss the Lego Movie as another vapid commercial display for children: it tackles some themes that run to the heart of how we interact with our world and teaches a wonderful message. Of course I'm not just saying this because I loved Lego as a kid and still love it today. I'm also saying it as a scholar of Thomas Aquinas....
So, what did Oscar winning director Danny Boyle do in his free time while directing the Opening ceremonies of the London 2012 Summer Olympics watched by an audience of close to a billion people with a cast of 10,000 including Queen Elizabeth II playing - well – Queen Elizabeth II. To begin with he directed a successful West End production of Frankenstein featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, who are currently playing separate Sherlocks on TV shows. And if that wasn't enough Boyle also shot Trance, a psychological heist thriller....
For this week's poem, igNation turns to Johnston Smith who teaches at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
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 Eric Jensen, SJ, who works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry at Loyola House, Guelph....
When you're a reader, there's nothing like finding a new series. It's even better when, by the time you stumble upon it, there is already a bunch written that you can plow through with relish....
Father James Profit, S.J. died on January 11th, 2014 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island after a struggle with cancer. He was in his 58th year of life and 34th year of religious life. In 1999, Jim was missioned to Guelph, Ontario and the farmland there where he would spend the rest of his life. There he was very creative in the context of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, always with a focus on ecological issues. He travelled to many parts of Canada and the world to lead Ignatian retreats with an Ecological focus, doing ground breaking work in the greening of the Spiritual Exercises. With others, he became a leader in a new consciousness that would articulate a fundamental responsibility of all persons and nations to respect and protect the earth. (http://jamesprofit.wordpress.com/2014/01/)...
January 25th is the Feast Day of the Conversion of St. Paul. To mark this day we post a poem about the day written by Johnston Smith, a teacher at St. Paul's High School, Winnipeg....
From time to time, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will be posted along with poems from contemporary writers. Today's poem is by Greg Kennedy, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic studying Theology at Regis College, Toronto....
Father James Profit, S.J. died on Saturday, January 11th, 2014 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island after a struggle with cancer. He was in his 58th year of life and 34th year of religious life. In 1999, Jim was missioned to Guelph, Ontario and the farmland there where he would spend the rest of his life. There he was very creative in the context of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, always with a focus on ecological issues. He travelled to many parts of Canada and the world to lead Ignatian retreats with an Ecological focus, doing ground breaking work in the greening of the Spiritual Exercises. With others, he became a leader in a new consciousness that would articulate a fundamental responsibility of all persons and nations to respect and protect the earth....
As an experiment, igNation will post a few short Vlogs on the site. This first Vlog takes a look at two of the best films of 2012 - The Life of Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Your comments would be much appreciated....
