by Jeff Johnson, SJ | Jun 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
My wife and I both love the show and can’t wait for the next ones. I am 63 and my wife is 52. I can’t help but think how we would have done were we in our early 20’s now. Truthfully, it wasn’t much different. Similar mistakes and missteps...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jun 4, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Every twenty years or so we Jesuits will have what we call a “General Congregation.” It’s where an elected group of us get together to discuss the future of our Society and to select our leader, the Father General. As is well known, it’s impossible for Jesuits to get...
by The Jesuit Post | Jun 4, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
This week, Matt Spotts reminded us that most important kind of prayer is the one you actually pray — or what his spiritual director calls the spirituality of showing up. Something analogous applies, we suspect, both to posting on the web, and maybe even to reading on...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | May 31, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
When my alarm drags me out of sweet slumber, I have one thought: I hate everything. Shaking off sleep I’m still 45 minutes away from being ready to face the world. No matter how much I want to change the number on my scale, I’m ready to ditch the gym today. “I can...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | May 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Do you ever find yourself clicking mindlessly through web pages, not so much “surfing” the internet as adrift on it? Have you noticed that more surfing tends to lead only to more mindlessness? The spiritual background of this temptation, however, may...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
I would like to dedicate this to my dear friends who whine about my musical tastes. Dear friend-who-hates-on-my-pop-music, I’ve often assumed that you are a little smarter than I. All those times I’ve turned on one of our Jesuit cars and NPR was on and immediately...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Terri Schiavo. Cardinal Law. Fr. Cutie. Margaret McBride. Obamacare. The LCWR. Tossed into a room, each of these symbolic hand-grenades can be counted on to create explosively heated discussions. Depending upon which side of these debates we fall, on whether we...
by The Jesuit Post | May 28, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
This week, Matt Spotts and Matthew Dunch both weighed in on commencement — Spotts from a student perspective, and with an eye on the Ascension, while Dunch, from the faculty seats, told us that the most important parts of the university stay with us. (Yes, we know...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | May 24, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
Somewhere near this day four years ago, I was sitting on a commuter train at the Fordham Road station, right next to the university from which I’d just graduated. As the doors closed and the train slowly pulled away I pressed my head against the window, trying to...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | May 24, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
I know, I know, you can’t take it anymore (jump to the 1:31 mark; © Squintz). It’s been a week of flipping through channels and biting nails, anxiety flooding through you as you wondered whether your theatrical bromance would be worthy of the top 10. Well who am I to...
