SpiritualitySeptember 25, 2021A Jesuit Brother’s loving journey into Catholic Spirituality. [1]
"May you find inspiration and deepen in your spirituality as we journey together in this blog series! In my next entry, I will speak of the spark of deeper love, and inspiration that are guiding this blog series."
SpiritualitySeptember 24, 2021Stations of The Rosary
"Besides using the pillars as an anchor to pray the rosary you could also use them to pray the foundational stories of Christianity."
SpiritualitySeptember 24, 2021Stations of the Rosary
"One day as I was walking the pathway of Rosary Lane the thought occurred to me that together the scriptural verses on the pillars are telling the story of the beginnings of our Christian faith."
SpiritualitySeptember 21, 2021Spiralling. but not out of control
"Is there one form of spiral that more closely fits our own experience, and do we also find traces of other forms as we live out, each one of us, our own unique journey?"
SpiritualitySeptember 20, 2021Going around in circles? Not quite.
"God cares for us, drawing us out of ourselves, gradually perfecting us through many ups and downs, and preparing us for our final encounter with Him."
SpiritualitySeptember 19, 2021The War Within (and Without) – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"There is absolutely nothing unusual or unhealthy about internal movement and stirrings, even if it is sometimes akin to a battle."
SpiritualitySeptember 17, 2021The Truth will Make You Free
" , , according to Guardini, this is determined by the fact that human nature takes on a kind of nobility which is expressed by these statements: “What is, is. What is right, must be done.” I would add, “What has been proven to be accurate must be held to be true.”.
SpiritualitySeptember 15, 2021Yom Kippur 2021
"Yom Kippur atones for those who repent and does not atone for those who do not repent. Repentance in Judaism is carried out through the process of Teshuva (regretting having committed the sin, resolving not to commit that sin in the future, and confessing that sin before God)."
SpiritualitySeptember 09, 2021Pedro Arrupe: Witness of the Twentieth Century, Prophet of the Twentieth
"Lamet traces his growth as a person, Jesuit, missioner, leader, and “prophet” over these 84 years."
SpiritualitySeptember 08, 2021The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
"She is an historical woman who is the subject of countless writings, pieces of art (both beautiful and tacky), music, and the inspiration for many religious communities of woman and men. She appeals as much to the impoverished as to the mighty."
SpiritualitySeptember 07, 2021Peace in Our Heart – then Peace in Our World
"The search for peace in society and in the world, cannot be separated from the search for inner peace in our own hearts"
SpiritualitySeptember 05, 2021“No one ever steps in the same river twice” – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"The challenge is to discern God in the movement. I find that this liquidity is not just in my interior. It is a defining characteristic of contemporary culture."
SpiritualitySeptember 02, 2021Saint Catherine of Siena
"It was her role in restoring the papacy to Rome, however, that earned her a paramount place in church history. At her urging and persuasion, Pope Gregory XI, moved back to Rome after an absence of seventy years. "
SpiritualityAugust 27, 2021Some Saints of Summer 2021
We look at just several of the women and men who are celebrated in the summer months.
SpiritualityAugust 25, 2021Reflecting on THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA’S CONVERSION
"If I had to define Ignatian spirituality, I would say it simply means being attentive to what God is doing in your life, and then reflecting on your experience in order to make decisions."
SpiritualityAugust 23, 2021The Suscipe Prayer and Me
"At the start of Covid 19, I like many others got side tracked by the unexpected arrival of a pandemic that left us bewildered. I soon realized that I had to step aside, and allow God to work."
SpiritualityAugust 20, 2021Finding Hope Through Reconciliation
"Everyone who has changed countries or remembers the migration of parents or grandparents has unique and often very visceral family memories of this universal human experience."
SpiritualityAugust 16, 2021Sister Jesus
"If you think you’re Jesus and you’re a woman, you’ve got issues. Janice knew she’d have to fend off curious hypocrites when she realized that she was an emanation of the Son. "
SpiritualityAugust 15, 2021The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Papal Infallibility – August 15,2021
"infallibility is “more than a simple, de facto absence of error. It is a positive perfection, ruling out the possibility of error.” The First Vatican Council defined papal infallibility in 1870"
SpiritualityAugust 13, 2021Mystery Part II: The Mystery of My Vocation
"While I owe my catholic baptism to my unbaptized father, in some mysterious way I owe my vocation to the Catholic priesthood to my Anglican mother."
SpiritualityAugust 12, 2021Mystery Part I: The Mystery of My Baptism
"That I should be the one to arrange for my father’s baptism – those many years after he had arranged for mine – strikes me as something only God could arrange. I have since come to think of God as the great Arranger: . . . "
SpiritualityAugust 08, 2021Sacred Places – 19th Sunday in Odinary Time
"Sacred places are not confined to specific locations."
SpiritualityJuly 31, 2021The Ignatian Year – Ignatius Day 2021
"One of the hopes for this commemorative year is that all of us might grow in our relationship with God. "
SpiritualityJuly 30, 2021Well Wounded
Today's poem recalls Ignatius at the time of recovery from the wound caused by the canon ball which shattered his leg.
SpiritualityJuly 29, 2021– In Memoriam – A Call to Prayer
A prayer taken from Learning and Prayer Guide: Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action
SpiritualityJuly 28, 2021Energy, Passion, Commitment – #5 – Gerard Ryan, SJ
"Gerard Ryan’s path into and through his vocation is uniquely his own and at the same time it is a broadly communal journey."
SpiritualityJuly 24, 2021Psalm 62 – adapted for Bill Paget, a colleague dying from lymphoma + a Personal Note
The author adapts Psalm 62 for her dying colleague.
SpiritualityJuly 22, 2021Eucharist: Celebration or Adoration
"In the last number of years there has been a resurgence of ‘adoration of the Blessed Sacrament” especially among the young. And in some instances it seems that ‘adoration’ and ‘celebration of Eucharist’ (aka ‘the Mass’) are on an equal level and, dare I say it, in a competition with each other."
SpiritualityJuly 21, 2021Energy, Passion, Commitment – # 4: Bill Robins, SJ
"With the exception of the year he took his final vows, 1976-77 which he spent in Canada, Bill has lived and worked in Jesuit missions in India, Bhutan, and Nepal."
SpiritualityJuly 19, 2021What Can We Do?
A response to the question "What can we do?" regarding the Residential Schools?
SpiritualityJuly 18, 2021Scattering or Uniting the Sheep? – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
"“The harsh words that begin today’s first reading [from Jeremiah] are, unfortunately, as relevant for our modern world as when they were first written.
SpiritualityJuly 14, 2021Energy, Passion, Commitment – # 3: Kevin Kelly, SJ
"My vocation within my vocation is around the spiritual, and I think it is around the communal side of spirituality: how we are closer than we think, spiritually, if we can just get together as humans.”"
SpiritualityJuly 12, 2021Food, Glorious Food
"Richard Rohr clearly states that “the Eucharist is telling us that God is the food, and all we have to do is provide the hunger."
SpiritualityUncategorisedJuly 11, 2021Walk in a Relaxed Manner – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
"Walk in a relaxed manner. That is wise advice for a physical journey. Even wiser for a spiritual journey!"
SpiritualityJuly 09, 2021An Era of Uncertainty
"“How well do I cope with ‘not knowing?’ The opposite to faith is not doubt but certainty. To believe is to be asked to go beyond facts to take a risk.” (from Sacred Space for April 27, 2021)"
SpiritualityJuly 07, 2021Energy, Passion, Commitment -# 2: John McCarthy, SJ
In the second post of a five part series, author Kevin Burns talks with John McCarthy SJ. "“The best promotion of vocations to our way of life is by Jesuits who cherish their own vocation and reflect real joy in living it out.”"
SpiritualityJuly 04, 2021A Thorn in the Flesh – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
" It is essential that I constantly remember that good things are happening because God is acting through me and my abilities."
SpiritualityJuly 03, 2021The Body of Christ: Three in One
". . . the act of receiving the Eucharist is an act of communion, with Christ in first place, and then with our fellow humans, near to us and far away. "
SpiritualityJune 30, 2021Energy, Passion, Commitment: # 1 – Alan Fogarty, SJ
"In sharing their family and vocation stories these five Canadian Jesuits open a window into that mysterious call that in the words of their Superior General, “frequently appears in surprising ways at unexpected times and places, inviting those who seem least likely.” In the first post of a five
SpiritualityJune 26, 2021Fatima – The Film
"Yet, in spite of the suffering, I was also struck by the faith that comes out subtly and magnanimously in each of the little stories within the film."