by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Jul 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
There’s is a bumper sticker that really grinds my gears–at least during the Olympics. It reads: “God Bless the World, No Exceptions.” That sentiment was fine for the past three years and 50 weeks since Beijing 2008. But for the next two weeks of London 2012? No...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jul 27, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
Last week I shared a story about the nerve-wracking experience of buying my first clerical shirt. The discomfort I experienced walking into the clerical goods store to buy that shirt had less to do with the shirt itself and much more to do with the way it altered my...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Editor’s Note: prior letters to a young atheist can be found here: letter one, letter two, letter three and letter four. *** Dear Timmy, I delighted the other morning when you stopped me in the hall to say that you were puzzled by Aquinas’s minimalism when it...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
My school recently bought a puppy. That’s right, Chicago Jesuit Academy (the very same school that brought you the popular prepubescent Examen) is the proud new owner of Bodie, a half-German Shepherd, half-Labrador ball of oh-so-cute fur. Seriously, what’s cuter than...
by Jay Hooks | Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Editors Note: This is the 3rd installment of our summer series, Journey Moments. If you missed the earlier installments you can find the intro here, the first post on the Migrant Corridor here, and the second post on pilgrimage as a spirituality of seeking here. It’s...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Jul 24, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
“Buon giorno – io sono un gesuita dagli Stati Uniti,” is what I wanted to say. But my basic Italian would serve me quite poorly in Krakow. The elderly Polish brother, Augustyn, who welcomed me to the Jesuit community there gave me a polite look...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Jul 23, 2012 | MAG+S & WYD ~ Approx. 2 mins
Catalonia, Spain, August 2011: After three days hiking — dripping with sweat, longing for a shower (or even a fountain in the town square) — we’d covered more than 42.5 miles. Once we set out pads and sleeping bags, and after putting the chairs on top of the tables to...
by George Williams, SJ | Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
“For this is my body, which will be given up for you.” Saying these words, I lift up the host for the men inside the cage to see. The “chapel” in San Quentin State Prison’s Death Row is a windowless old shower room encased in a heavy metal cage. Inside it there are 6...
by The Jesuit Post | Jul 21, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
Brendan Busse was in a cold sweat as he walked into the store … to buy his first clerical shirt. What he learned was that the clothes we wear are an offering: “This is who I’m giving you today, they say.” And so here we are again with another Week in...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jul 20, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
I went alone. Would bringing a friend along have made it less awkward? I’m not sure, but knowing my friends… well… yeah, I went alone. It was a few weeks before I was to enter the Jesuit novitiate and I had to purchase a black clerical shirt – you know...
