by Kevin O'Brien, SJ | Mar 19, 2012 | Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O’Brien, SJ, copyright 2011 by Loyola Press. This is reprinted with permission of Loyola Press. To order copies please call 1-800-621-1008 or go to www.loyolapress.com/obrien....
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Mar 19, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
During my first year as a Jesuit I helped with the 4-year-old preschool at Our Lady of La Salette parish across the street from the old novitiate in Berkley, Michigan. I learned two things there. First, I learned that there is a strong lobby among the 4-year-old set...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Mar 19, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
What am I supposed to do with scriptures that disturb me? I think I’ve mentioned before that I live and study in St. Louis. Most of my community members are like myself, young Jesuit scholastics who are preparing for ordained ministry in the Church. One of the...
by The Jesuit Post | Mar 19, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 mins
Despite March Madness (eight Jesuit teams in the men’s tourney, and three in the women’s!), which our own Perry Petrich covered, we managed to steal some time between buzzer beaters to do some posting. As always, we’re back to catch you up on it...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Mar 19, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Something about the tourney reminds me of a family reunion, a bunch of people who come together once a year to celebrate that one thing that they have in common. All those familiar faces reappear–a year older but just as crazy. And isn’t that what we love?...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Mar 17, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
One guy would grab a fiddle, another the tin whistle. Someone would run for an accordion, and somehow we always found a drum. Lacking musical talent, I just grabbed a beer. We all had our part to play. So began many great evenings during my second year as a Jesuit....
by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Mar 16, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Maybe it’s some suppressed voyeurism but I love reading oral histories, and a few months ago I read a strong one on the history of Saturday Night Live appropriately called Live from New York. Now Saturday Night Live started before I was born, and the only time...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 15, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
I had picked up a friend from her sober living apartment. It was during the first few years of her recovery, and she was between one relapse and the next. Her latest fall off of the proverbial wagon had been a pretty rough one, and it had been some time since we’d...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Mar 14, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
If you set out to make a noble sacrifice, and it reminds people of Darth Vader leaving the murderous and repressive Galactic Empire in Star Wars — well, that probably means your soul-searching should have started a long, long time ago. That’s what happened to Goldman...
by Jason Brauninger, SJ | Mar 14, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. We all know that it was Louis Armstrong who, back in the day, sang those lovely words in his sandpaper voice (oh, go ahead and open the link and...
