by Brendan Busse, SJ | Oct 20, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
Our father left us. Not in the permanent, out-for-a-smoke-never-to-return, kind of way. He left us habitually; that is to say, with regularity. He left us outside of supermarkets and soccer games, hardware stores and nurseries. “Here’s a shopping...
by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Oct 19, 2015 | Humor, In the News, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
View image | gettyimages.com People in my life know that I love the same few things, which makes gift-giving really easy. Puppies. Martha Stewart. JCrew. And soap operas. When I began watching soap operas more than ten years ago, they were an active part of the...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Oct 15, 2015 | Catholic Writing, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2min
“A poem,” Robert Frost wrote, “begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” In our preaching course, professor Bob VerEecke, SJ encourages us future-priests to break from the boring ease of staid prose....
by Garrett Gundlach, SJ | Oct 13, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Fifteen minutes into my first retreat as high school campus minister, I found myself sitting in a big circle with all the student leaders of the school. We were playing the classic ice-breaker, “Two Truths and a Lie.” As the game snaked its way around the circle...
by Matt Stewart, SJ | Oct 12, 2015 | Sports ~ Approx. 5 mins
View image | gettyimages.com My dad was very amused at the inappropriate level of anger I was showing at the TV screen. He was curious why something like this could stir up such deep emotions in his non-sports-fanatic son.1 But the truth is, one of the more...
by Jason Downer, SJ | Oct 9, 2015 | Humor, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 2min
So there I was minding my own business and October sneaks up on me with its gray skies and temperatures in the 50s. Am I mad? I’ll let you in on a little secret, I can’t stand being hot. I’ll take a day walking around with a jacket on over a day at the beach every...
by Adam Rosinski, SJ | Oct 8, 2015 | Blogs, Pope Francis, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Pope Francis’ popemobile was passing right by us so our group began chanting en espanol to get his attention: “¡Colegio Jesuita! ¡Colegio Jesuita!” (“Jesuit high school!”) Would he hear us? *** Last week, we at St. Joe’s Prep, the Jesuit high school in...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Oct 6, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Back to school? All signs point to yes. On my desk you’ll find fresh highlighters, sharpened pencils, used textbooks, and a semi-charged iPad. After two years of full-time campus ministry I’m back in class, this time for full-time graduate theology study. I’m looking...
by Sean Barry, SJ | Oct 5, 2015 | Pop Culture ~ Approx. 2min
I grew up playing video games, like many children of the 1990s. They became an activity I could share with friends and with my younger brother, as well as a chance to engage my imagination. Fairly quickly, the Legend of Zelda series became my favorite. The games...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Oct 5, 2015 | Catholic Writing, Faith & Family, Spirituality ~ Approx. 6 mins
“Meem?” my seven-year-old self asked my seventy-something grandmother as we rode together in the back seat of her car. “Meem” was short for “Mimi,” which itself was short for “Mary.” It was nighttime, summer at the beach, and I was staying with her and my grandfather....
