Daily LifeAugust 05, 2022igNation is taking a summer break
We will be taking a two-week summer break from publishing. Enjoy your summer and we look forward to seeing you back here soon.
Daily LifeJuly 18, 2022A True Mass?
Finding God in everything and everywhere can’t be more true as in that unexpected encounter.
Daily LifeJuly 17, 2022Martha or Mary Mary and Martha? – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus has elements of both Mary and Martha, probably exhibiting them as the situation he is in dictates..
Daily LifeOur CultureSpiritualityJuly 12, 2022Apologizing Along with Pope Francis
Yes, I really need to apologize for my negative attitudes and my apathy.
Daily LifeUncategorisedJuly 11, 2022Brother Eugene McLaren, S.J.
Pope Francis has referred to the saints next door. Brother Gene was one of mine.."
Daily LifeJuly 10, 2022A Good Samaritan – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"What motivates ordinary men and women who become recognized as Good Samaritans?"
- Daily LifeJuly 07, 2022
The tale of 2 brothers-in-law
Here I was, the one who had left so angrily, and who also was so in the wrong; and there was the one who had been wronged
Daily LifeJuly 04, 2022Commitment: The Eleventh Commandment
"If we think about it, commitments do define us no matter what stage of life we are at. "
Daily LifeSpiritualityJuly 03, 2022What We Carry … 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
"He invites us to come apart and rest for a while."
Daily LifeJuly 01, 2022Happy Canada Day 2022
"The chapters are divided into three general categories: make yourself worthy of trust, build trust around you, and create a trustworthy and trusted country. Johnston expands on the notion of trust in his introduction, speaking of three trends that lie behind the collapse of trust"
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."
Daily LifeSpiritualityUncategorisedJune 20, 2022Reconciliation.
:. . . responding to grace can make us free. Don’t be afraid to bother God with prayers of petition.."
Daily LifeSpiritualityJune 19, 2022Corpus Christi – Fathers’ Day – 20222 2022
"Let’s be mindful of our fathers, whether living or deceased. It is helpful to call to mind St. Joseph and his role in the life of Jesus"
Daily LifeSpiritualityJune 18, 2022Simple Reflections (Part 3)
The Holy Father further calls us to forge a personal and committed relationship with God which at the same time commits us to serving others, and learn to find Jesus in the faces of others, in their voices, in their pleas.
Daily LifeJune 17, 2022Blog on John: John 21: 15-19
:When confronted by the wrongdoing in residential schools, and around the world, many people say they cannot stay. And I hear “Do you still love me?” When people of our church reject persons because of their sexuality, many people say they cannot stay. I hear “Do you still love me?:
Daily LifeSpiritualityJune 16, 2022Simple Reflections
::. . . one of the two gr mandments, which ground every moral norm and as the clearest sign for discerning spiritual growth in response to God’s completely free gift of love. "
Daily LifeJune 10, 2022The Purple Rose of Cairo
"Although this movie plot is pure fantasy, the notion of being invited to join, to be included, parallels with what we believe as Christians happens upon baptism. We are anointed as worthy."
Daily LifeJune 08, 2022My life is an open book?
" While there may not be much more journeying to be had, what there is, I will joyfully count as a continued blessing.."
Daily LifeJune 06, 2022Crash!
"The media are about keeping our eyeballs glued and the best way to do that is to prey on fear, anger, envy…well, any of the deadly sins really. But trusting and honourable dealings with each other still happen…and praise God for that.>"
Daily LifeJune 01, 2022Candy Hero Spectacle
"The memory becomes fuel I need to face the long journey back to myself..."
Daily LifeMay 24, 2022Victoria Day 2022
"One of my favourite quotes from the namesake of today’s holiday is: “The important thing is not what they think of me, it is what I think of them.” Then there is, “an ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is forgotten.”"
Daily LifeMay 21, 2022SO, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD?
A question often asked but not yet answered. What can we do about that?
Daily LifeMay 13, 2022A Sudden Change of Life (2)
"I assume you have your own favorite ways of having your spirits lifted. Feel free to share your own practices."
Daily LifeMay 12, 2022A Sudden Change of Life (1)
"Asking for help, Mackesy writes, is not giving up but refusing to give up."
Daily LifeMay 11, 2022What Really Matters? Consolation is the Answer to Moving Forward.
Michael Ignatieff tells us why consolation is the answer to what really matters..
Daily LifeMay 08, 2022Mothers’ Day aand the World Day of Prayer for Vocations – – 4thth Sunday of Easter
"One of the drawbacks to having a day dedicated to mothers is that we too often focus on them on that single day and take them for granted for the rest of the year."
Daily LifeMay 07, 2022A WORLD TRANSFORMED DURING THE LIFETIME OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA
Placing Ignatius in the perspective of his times.
Daily LifeMay 05, 2022Into the Garden (2): A Hand atThe Window
What have we learned from history and how will future generations look on what we have done.
Daily LifeMay 04, 2022Into The Garden (1) Garden Congregation.
"For those strange almost three years that we lived through and that you now call history, Miles, being welcomed into that garden made such a difference for me."
Daily LifeMay 02, 2022Charity, Inspired
". the essay is written in keeping with Pope Francis' call to each of us to exercise charity with joy, and embodies the message of service to others which bears immediate relevance to this Lenten/Easter season."
Daily LifeApril 26, 2022A Jesuit Brother’s loving journey into Catholic Spirituality.(4): Envisioning a better, (more loving) world.
"So instead of the impossibility of this vision, I speak of how some of its dynamics are already at work in all of us, and I celebrate the possibility that I can integrate it even more fully in my love, in my life, with the help of God's guidance.:
Daily LifeApril 25, 2022Mel’s Diner
But there’s something else outstanding about Mel’s Diner: It has a shrine to Our Lady---in the entrance hall! You can’t miss it. And a bevy of statues and paintings of saints, the Infant of Prague and the Sacred Heart, adorn the walls of the foyer."
Daily LifeApril 20, 2022Sticks and Stones
What does the phrase "Sticks and Stones can break my bones etc"mean to a cild?
Daily LifeApril 06, 2022Zephania
Perhaps mum’s biggest fear was the same one I grapple with; the fear that the loneliness that lurks in even the most spirited moments will never depart.
Daily LifeApril 05, 2022Be Kind
"Ignatius advised spiritual directors that sometimes it’s necessary in working with a directee that we might not agree with, to give them the benefit of the doubt."
Daily LifeApril 03, 2022Straining Forward :Fifth Sunday of Lent
"P:ul says, Straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God.P
Daily LifeApril 01, 2022A Brief Lenten Reflection on Things
"With our Baptism we begin to live Jesus’ divine life but somehow ‘the flesh’ is so powerful in our lives that keeping a balance between the spiritual and material things is a formidable task. "
Daily LifeMarch 31, 2022Catholic Philosophy: Does It Automatically Lead to A Reactionary, Conservative Public Square?
"As Catholics, we are in an interesting bind: our faith calls us to lead a communal life, but our society and our civic culture tells us to lead an individual life, a life that is about me"
Daily LifeMarch 30, 2022Travel “up the Coast” of James Bay and Hudson’s Bay
"So we in Hearst-Moosonee confidently entrust to Mary’s maternal intercession the Cree and Ojibway Christians of our diocese along with our ongoing efforts at healing and reconciliation."
Daily LifeMarch 29, 2022Empowering Women in Tea Gardens
". . . empowered by sharing of information and resources, they have made great strides in organizing and civic engagement, financial management and navigating government offices.
Daily LifeMarch 24, 2022The Occupation of Ottawa and the Capitulation of State Authority
But even in this light, it is difficult to defend the police’s inaction when the Ottawa Police Service ostensibly abdicated its duty to defend the citizens of Ottawa, namely the citizens of Centretown, the Market, Lowertown, and Sandy Hill."
Daily LifeMarch 23, 2022Move Over Job, We’re Suffering too!
"The greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no-one….” (Mother Theresa)
Daily LifeMarch 19, 2022St. Joseph – Patron Saint of Canada
"Faithfulness and integrity come in many sizes and shapes. As we celebrate the life of a husband and foster father who remained faithful, let’s ponder the illustrations of faithful devotion we see all around us."
Daily LifeMarch 15, 2022The Deaf and Church Teaching
Pope John Paul II said of deaf ministry. “In this field it can certainly never be claimed that enough has been done…it must in fact be considered one of the important aspects of that ‘preferential option for the poor’ which is so characteristic of the gospel mission.”
Daily LifeMarch 14, 2022Lent at the Hospice
Bad news, good news -it all arrives at its own pace - no hurry..