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, Philip Chircop, SJ writes about his 25th anniversary of ordination....
A group of retired British pensioners move to a retirement hotel in India and there are forced to come to terms with their lives, their pasts, their present, and their futures....
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 post is from Monty Williams, SJ...
The film focus on the lives of an elderly French couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers. They have a daughter who lives abroad. One day Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses one side of her body and Georges undertakes to look after her. The film is based on an identical situation that happened in Haneke's family. What interested him the most was exploring the question: "How do you manage with the suffering of someone you love?"...
A visionary sheik believes if he shares his passion salmon fishing with his desert people he can enrich their lives. To turn what seems an impossible dream into reality he enlists a pragmatic British expert who thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. For political reasons he is conscripted against his will into the project and discovers in that journey his life changing....
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....
The film tells the story of Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society. He meets Lancaster Dodd, a leader of a religious movement known as "The Cause" and becomes a follower. The film traces their mutual dependency in their search for identity through a spiritual quest....
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- and photo - is by Philip Chircop, SJ, who works out of Toronto doing parish ministry and giving retreats....
The University of Regina, which annually ranks among the top 10 universities in Canada in the Maclean's poll, isn't satisfied. Apparently, it's looking to go global. As soon as word gets out that it's offering Game of Thrones 101, the university's fame will extend all the way to Westeros, the mythical kingdom in which the deadly game is played....
I've been hearing a lot of talk about "millenials" lately. There are many criticisms of the generation, but very few genuine attempts to outline the resources and insights that have emerged from the millenial perspective. It is the Ignatian model always to view others with an eye towards what good is already present in them and nurturing that good before worrying too much about criticizing error....
