08 Sep

This summer the Pan American and Parapan American Games took place in the Toronto area. Fr. Edward Soto Parra, SJ was a full-time bilingual Roman Catholic priest chaplain present at the Pan Am Athletes Village. Today he shares his experience of this exciting event which brought together some 6,000 athletes from 41 countries.This article was originally posted on August 21, 2015 on the Archdiocese of Toronto web site and is reposted here with permission....

02 Sep

I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity to direct Ignatian retreats at the Jesuit retreat house in Guelph, Loyola House. I've learned a tonne about Ignatian retreats as well as about the complexity of the human experience. This includes the "characters" whom I've encountered. After I've given enough of these Ignatian retreats, I begin to see certain patterns in peoples' lives. I'd like to share with you a significant pattern that I've been noticing in a large part of my retreatants: it is the challenge to live a balanced life....

01 Sep

Youth unemployment is an issue around the world. We see it firsthand here in North America, but it is also in evidence throughout the world, whether developed or developing. Those who reflect on youth unemployment worry about the long-term effects on both the young and our culture....

30 Aug

Pope Francis's latest encyclical, Laudato Si, dives into our present ecological crisis and gives us theological teaching. It provides rigorous sociological analysis, calls for dialogue, and suggests action steps. But most importantly, Laudato Si invites us into prayer. As a priest who studies the ecology of parasites, I found myself drawn to the following three themes. John Shea, SJ originally published this article in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org)...

25 Aug

This week's 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (23-31 August 2005) offers a timely incentive to read "Laudato si'". The Encyclical offers fresh comprehension of Katrina as an environmental-human-urban disaster 'impatiently waiting to happen again'. Michael Czerny S.J. 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....

22 Aug

Bread, like everything else, has a history. It goes back 10,000 years, to when the first wheat began to appear in the Middle East, which led to cultivation and farming, to villages and towns, and eventually to the great cities of Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilization. . . I want to focus on the Bread of Wisdom and the Bread of Life...

18 Aug

If you were to go to the Holy Land, you could visit the Mount of the Beatitudes and see the geographic setting of the Sermon on the Mount. If you were to turn also to a Bible, especially one with paragraph headings, like the Good News Bible, you would find, not a sermon but a collection of teachings: Teaching about the Law, Teaching about Anger, Teaching about Adultery, Teaching about Divorce, Teaching about Vows, Teaching about Revenge, Teaching about Charity, Teaching about Prayer, Teaching about Fasting– three chapters (5, 6, and 7) filled with teachings....

11 Aug

In July, Joan Levy Earle lost her son, John, to a sudden heart attack. In today's post, Joan shares how her faith has been a strength and help at this difficult time. "How blessed we are to have the gift of faith."...

07 Aug

Inspired by Yongsung Kim's "Peace Be Still", Jean Bertin Saint Louis, Sj writes about the struggle to find peace in our world....

02 Aug

The universal prayer intention entrusted to the worldwide Apostleship of Prayer by Pope Francis recognizes and asks us to pray for volunteers: That volunteers may give themselves generously to the service of the needy." I occasionally hear someone mutter something about how our contemporary North American culture is so selfish, with individuals turned in on themselves.That may be true of some people. But it is not my experience of our culture."...

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