Daily LifeOur CultureSpiritualityJuly 12, 2022Apologizing Along with Pope Francis
Yes, I really need to apologize for my negative attitudes and my apathy.
Our CultureJuly 08, 2022It’s all happening at the zoo
Its claim to fame is that its fragrant flowers are a powerful attraction for butterflies.
Our CultureSpiritualityJuly 05, 2022Sunset Safari
The hush of evening hung low interrupted intermittently by an African Jakana wading bird
Our CultureJuly 02, 2022Reupholstered Psalms 101 – 150
Although timeless, the Psalms can still benefit from being “reupholstered”
Our CultureJune 27, 2022Downton Abbey: A New Era
Perhaps Fellowws will take us into the brave new world of the young.
Our CultureSpiritualityJune 23, 2022The Nativity ofJohn the Baptist
Today's poem, by Greg Kennedy, SJ, is something special for the feast day of St. John the Baptist.
Daily LifeOur CultureJune 21, 2022National Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022
. . .are still newcomers. I must be humble enough to recognize that, even though I was born inCanada."
Our CultureSpiritualityJune 13, 2022Seeing with New Eyes
"As we traveled, I listened to shared stories, and became fully present to people in different settings. I was gradually being drawn into the miracle of life, natural and human."
Our CultureJune 04, 2022Looking at God Through A Lens
"he reminds us that whenever we stop to look carefully, we will always be surprised. And this is also the grandeur that Gerard Manley Hopkins evokes throughout his poetry: “all this juice and joy”, “brute beauty”, “all things counter"
Our CultureMay 22, 2022Parting Gifts : Sixth Sunday of Easter
Jesus’ constant promise of peace in the Gospels is a gift offered to any of us"
Our CultureMay 20, 2022The Gilded Age – a second look
A viewer take a second critical look at The Gilded Age
Our CultureMay 19, 2022The Me You Can’t See
Would a camera capture a photo of the Risen Christ? Why? Why not?
Our CultureMay 06, 2022Saint François de Laval
"He was a spiritual man for whom self-denial, poverty and humility were important qualities."
Our CultureApril 23, 2022Optechnological Solutionism
"The present science of Artificial Intelligence is ethnocentric, likely flawed. AI relies on the conceptual framework of understand and improve, and does not consider fundamentals from other cultures."
Our CultureApril 04, 2022An Opportunity to Reshape the Relationship of the Person to the Community: A Catholic Inspired Philosophical Response to the Pandemic
"The Sermon on the Mount calls us to live a very different type of life. It is quite radical; it would be very difficult for many of us to adopt outright, myself included. However, we should all aim to live out the Beatitudes."
Our CultureMarch 18, 2022Marshall McLuhan and the Jesuits
"A year earlier, he had offered a pithy explanation of his rhetoric and pedagogy to The New York Times: “I don’t want them to believe what I say. I just want them to think.”"
Our CultureFebruary 23, 2022Coincidence
".And in the midst of all this speed, another new member of our curlers took control….a retired member of the RCMP."
Our CultureFebruary 19, 2022Don’t Look up
" I was struck by the film’s Biblical echo. The two astronomers are contemporary prophets. DiCaprio is like Jeremiah who warned the king and people of Jerusalem of the impending danger of the Babylonians invaders who will carry off the citizen to slavery in Babylon. "
Our CultureFebruary 09, 2022The Gilded Age
"Although money and status seem to be the main characters in this Fellowes’ creation, perhaps this fixation will be able to lead to more human and interesting character development and action in future episodes. We shall see!
Our CultureJanuary 26, 2022Time Suspended -Cinema Poetry
"he poem was inspired by the PAWS array motion picture camera which was created for the Matrix films."
Our CultureJanuary 17, 2022Martin Luther King
"“A nation can be considered great when it fosters a culture which enables people to dream of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King JJr. sought to do.""
Our CultureDecember 18, 2021Pilgrims on a Popcorn Strewn Path
St. Ignatius of Loyola – who founded the Jesuits in the 16th century - had the insight that we all live in imagined worlds, and that our imagination constructs the worlds in which we live, using our experiences, our lived contexts, our hopes, our pains and our joys. In effect we live in a highly sel
Our CultureDecember 16, 2021Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest/ Célébrations dominicales en l’absence d’un prêtre
"Asa priest if she needs some help. / Célébrations dominicales en l'absence d'un prêtre
Our CultureDecember 13, 2021Squid Game: Do Nice Guys Finish Last?
"Squid Game is .…currently sitting atop Netflix’s list of most watched shows in 94 countries around the globe. But even more astounding: Netflix says Squid Game will soon become its most viewed piece of content, in any language, ever.”"
Our CultureDecember 11, 2021“Clearing the Plains: Disease, the Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life.” – A Review
“While Canadians see themselves as world leaders in social welfare, health care, and economic development, most reserves in Canada are economic backwaters with little prospect of material advancement and more in common with the developing world than the rest of Canada."
Our CultureDecember 07, 2021The Cathedral Mystery Trilogy
"Ely presents both its history in the time of the Commonwealth and crime within the Edwardian setting. Here an added touch is contributed by an inventor of alarms for coffins – devices by which the buried could signal their liveliness. "
Our CultureDecember 06, 2021STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND CANADA: A COLONIAL-SETTLER STATE – (Revised)
"While it is easy to blame the churches for what has happened, . . . it seems clear that the Government of Canada should accept the blame for setting up the system of residential schools in the first place, and that it should do whatever it takes to restore the Indigenous Peoples of this land to
Our CultureDecember 03, 2021Cowboy Ethics: The Code of the West
"“The hardy men and women who lived in the West were bound by certain unwritten rules which focused on hospitality, fair play, loyalty, and respect for the land.”
Our CultureNovember 22, 2021A Song of Innocence and Inexperience – Bonnie Dundee
"“There was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order.”
Our CultureNovember 11, 2021Remembrance Day 2021
"Veterans Affairs Canada states that the date is of “remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace.”"
Our CultureNovember 10, 2021Money Heist the Phenomenon: A Review
" . . . it is striking to see in the characters, in the symbols, and in the tension, how the series has produced something powerful that resonates with our culture today. "
Our CultureOctober 31, 2021“Drunk with the Love of God”: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
". . . scripture is about life and the various writers were inspired by their experience of God’s role in the world around them."
Our CultureOctober 30, 2021Free Guy: The Search for Meaning
"Here, I follow Hans Urs Von Balthasar in the insight that human drama in many ways echoes the divine drama. That our images, our art, and our film in some ways reveal the transcendent to us."
Our CultureOctober 29, 2021Luster
A tale of water blessed by the singing of the histories of love ino it.