by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Sep 4, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Is it possible for there to be nothing — either practically or morally, by force or persuasion or any other means — that we can do to improve a terrible situation? And when we reach that point, when we can do nothing except fast and pray and cry out to heaven, are we...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Sep 4, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
The folks at Cracked have done it again: a list of the 6 most badass saints on the planet. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, just barely cracked the list, coming in at #6. Cracked might have listed him higher had he proved that he was also bulletproof. Contrary to...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Sep 3, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
When you live in the rarefied realm of a Jesuit community, you quickly get to know your brothers, inside and out, and it was not long after I entered this least Society before my own secret was revealed: I am a video gamer. I took some good-natured ribbing (and still...
by Chris Schroeder, SJ | Sep 3, 2013 | MAG+S & WYD ~ Approx. 4 mins
Since Taizé prayer services often have impressive displays of lights whose beauty helps aid prayer, I was not surprised to see a darkened room full of candles when I arrived at the light service, but I was surprised to see them hovering in midair! As a part of World...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Sep 2, 2013 | Humor, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
1. Labor is a right with a history of wrongs. 2. Labor infuses life with a meaning that not even retirement can take away. 3. Labor is a misnomer. It begins nine months earlier than they say it does. 4. Labor is the smile mom forced to snuff out...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Aug 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
For this Throwback Thursday, we remember MTV’s fabled end-of-summer tradition: the Video Music Awards. It’s the annual gathering of music’s biggest stars vying for the famous Moon Man statues and we all have come to expect not just amazing music performances – we have...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Aug 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
When I was younger, my friends and I used to dress up in matching costumes and play a game in which we pretended to fight fierce creatures like “wildcats” and “bears.” We were in our late teens at the time, and our game is more commonly known as high school...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Aug 27, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
“I see the resemblance!” the well-intentioned but unknowing older woman said to me. I was sitting outside a Starbucks on a cloudy morning in a formerly crisp, now saliva-soaked, oxford shirt. I was holding my friend’s wife’s 5 week old baby. And although I couldn’t...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Aug 26, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
Some who have observed him over the past 37 years at Red Cloud think that Brother Mike Zimmerman, tall, sinewy, wearer of industrial sized tinted eye-glasses and low-heeled brown boots, lead-footed driver of ancient army trucks and careening gunmetal Camrys, guardian...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Aug 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Maria Turner McPartland 1918 to Wednesday “Oh, you’ll come to no good, you’ll marry a musician and live in an attic” Ms. Turner’s mother warned her when she left school at 17 to join a four-piano vaudeville act. Of course, that’s precisely what happened. What mom...
