“Go from your country”: The Second Sunday of Lent
Our Lenten reflections continue with today's steps that take us further along the path....
11
Mar
08
Mar
A 2017 Lenten Bookshelf: A Second Look at a Six Fold Path: Part 2 – Benedictine
In this six-part series, Kevin Burns selects a book for each week of Lent. Each book speaks to one of the great traditions within Catholic culture. Each book also shows how its author struggles to apply that tradition. Six different approaches to the same journey through the desert of Lent to the Easter promise of resurrection. This week Judith Valente explores the Benedictine path....
04
Mar
Your Eyes Will be Opened: The First Sunday in Lent
Wilderness. Stones. Mountains. The dust of the ground. Serpents and wild animals. . . These are rich images for us to ponder as we enter into our annual Lenten journey. They are relevant images for the mysteries of life....
01
Mar
A 2017 Lenten Bookshelf: A Second Look at a Six Fold Path: Part 1 – Trappist
In this six-part series, Kevin Burns selects a book for each week of Lent. Each book speaks to one of the great traditions within Catholic culture. Six different approaches to the same journey through the desert of Lent to the Easter promise of resurrection. This week Thomas Merton experiences Lent as a Trappist....
28
Feb
Giving Up For Lent
On this Ash Wednesday we are asked that nagging question - what are we giving up for Lent?...
14
Jan
Negros y Blancos: Black, White and Blue All Over
Had my faith the same intensity and dedication as go into the marvels of this carnival, I would be a walking firebrand setting the world aflame with the love of God. Had my soul the same depth of desire to make manifest the beauty of creation, I would be moving mountains to glorify the Creator. The lesson is to live fully and thus praise the font of life....
25
Dec
Christmas 2016 – Literature and Liturgy
The Christmas story makes not just great literature but powerful Liturgy. Great literature helps us relive the past, but liturgy makes the past present, here and now, in Mystery / Sacrament / Body of Christ....
17
Dec
Advent 4: The Mystery of Our Identity
The Fourth Sunday of Advent offers us the mystery of our identity. It calls us beyond ourselves into an intimacy with the ongoing Body of Christ ....
14
Dec
The Journey: Letters Home, 1961 – 1963 Part 11
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
13
Dec
Please….NO MORE HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
When God sent His Son to be born on Christmas Day, I doubt He ever expected the frenzy that consumerism would bring with the celebration of this event....