by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Apr 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
“This post was due an hour ago.” It’s 1:30 in the morning, I have 200+ words to write, and that phrase is all that’s running through my head. In other words, I’m familiar with procrastination. Procrastination has always been an easy pattern for people to fall into,...
by Jay Hooks | Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
How do you keep gangs off the streets of L.A.? You could build more prisons. Or you could take Father Greg Boyle’s advice: “Jobs, not jails.” Fr. Greg had been working as a parish priest in the rough Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, and he was tired of...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Apr 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
As a kid, my family would get up early on Easter to go to church. When I would ask why we were going to mass at this obscene time (7:30 a.m. being the middle of the night), the answer usually centered on practical things like preparing the familial feast for the early...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Apr 10, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
If you’ve ever been on a plane, seated near the window with the sun high on the opposite side of the aircraft, and if you’ve looked down from that height, you may have seen something like a circular rainbow following along. Do you know what I’m talking about?...
by Sean Dempsey, SJ | Apr 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Like much of the known universe, I recently trudged down to my local multiplex to see The Hunger Games, but unlike much of the known universe, I did so with little sense of excitement or anticipation. I have not read any of the novels by Suzanne Collins, of which The...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
The Hunger Games are all about hope. At least that’s what archvillain President Snow thinks: “Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.” As long as it doesn’t get out of control, hope can motivate Snow’s oppressed masses into their forced labor that keeps...
by The Jesuit Post | Apr 8, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
What does Holy Week look like on the web? Funny you should ask… If you read the title “Flaw” and wince in recognition, and are about to click away in distraction — then you need to read (or reread) this beautiful meditation on our ordinary, everyday...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
What does Easter look like? More like a silly YouTube video of Stephen Colbert and a flash mob in Macy’s than the picture to the left. Perhaps I’m jaded by over-exposure to religious art, but I really don’t think that the main thing Jesus did after the...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
“Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the world.” “Come, let us adore.” That invocation and response are sung today, three times, as the Cross is venerated in the Good Friday liturgy. And honestly, the best advice I...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Doors closing. Please stand clear of the closing doors. Next stop, Jesus falls for the 1st time. Doors open on the left. Mind the Gap! We love mashups here at TJP. This latest mashup involves a former co-worker of mine who spent his day riding the the entire ‘L’...
