It’s That Time of Year Again
How many shopping days left till Christmas? How many days till you have to mail out Christmas cards - if indeed you send any? Paul Sullivan has answers and more questions....
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Dec
26
Nov
1st Sunday of Advent – Advent and the Fear of the Lord
Sunday marks the start of a new liturgical year - Advent. In today's posting, Philip Shano, SJ brings together Whiskey Advent calendars, Mother Teresa and Moses....
23
Nov
Advent
As part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits and our collaborators. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as contemporary poems. Today's poem, by Greg Kennedy, SJ, looks at Advent and "the red machine on the wall."...
23
Nov
Your Alternative, Guilt Free . . . Advent Gift Guide
The complete title of Robert Cooke's article is "Your Alternative, Guilt Free, Anti-Capitalist, World Changing, Non-Sucking Advent Gift Guide." First posted in his blog - Neo(un)Orthodoxy - it is reposted here with permission....
18
Nov
Jesus for Prime Minister on Reign of Christ Sunday
The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe is celebrated by many denominations. The Anglicans refer to it as Reign of Christ Sunday. In this re-post, Anglican priest Robert Cooke writes about one meaning of the feast for today....
31
Oct
Three Glimpses of the Face of God
Today the Church celebrates All Saints' Day. Robert Ellsburg, a Catholic writer long associated with the Catholic Worker movement, describes saints: Each one offers a unique glimpse of the face of God; each enlarges our moral imagination; each offers new insights into the meaning and possibilities of human life." We don't all like all of the saints. But there is such a variety that it is not difficult for any of us to have a few favourites. ""...
03
Sep
The Vocation to Work: Contributing to the Fabric of the World – Labour Day 2015
Monday, September 7 marks Labour Day 2015. There will be the usual marches and speeches in major cities around the world. In today's post, Philip Shano, SJ looks at the spiritual underpinning of this day as found in the words of Pope Francis....
29
Aug
Deliver Us From Pollution!
Like the Catholic First Sunday of Advent, in the Orthodox liturgical calendar going back to Byzantine times, the 1st of September is the first day of the ecclesiastical year. In 1989, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew decided to devote every 1st of September to praying for the environment. He commissioned a contemporary hymnographer from Mount Athos to compose special hymns for that day. This post is by Michael Czerny S.J. who works in the President's Office, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. In 2014 the Council was charged by Pope Francis to prepare the first draft of the Encyclical, signed on Pentecost 2015....
30
Jul
Ignatius Day – Five Images for Discerned Living
Today is Ignatius Day, the anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola on July 31, 1556. Jesuits around the world celebrate Ignatius on this day. In honour of St. Ignatius, I thought I'd offer a few of my favourite images from Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, all of which help us to be more discerning in daily life....
20
Jun
A Father’s Love
There is an old saying: anyone can be a father, but it takes some special to be a dad. For most of us, the rituals of reassuring our children that the dinosaurs are not going to eat them while they sleep may have long gone. We do not tuck them in anymore. Yet as they face the uncertainties of life, we think about the need to let them decide for themselves, even when we know what they are doing are not necessarily right. We cringe when they fall, and we teach them to stand up again. To try again....