by James T. Keane | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you know when I click and what I search; you discern my purpose from afar.” Two of these three lines are from Psalm 139. I address the third to Google. According to Google, I’m a 65-year-old woman with interests in...
by The Jesuit Post | Jan 30, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 2min
So it was a quiet eight hours of the site being live here at TJP… that is, we had approximately eight hours of quiet before Jim Martin linked us, followed by the good folks at dotMagis and CathNewsUSA, and lots of tweets and Facebook shares. Quite literally before we...
by Jason Brauninger, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
I spend my days in a Level I Trauma Center. Most people familiar with Jesuit education imagine a Regent to be a high school teacher, but not all of us share that experience of Jesuit regency. In May of 2010, I was assigned to the Regis University Jesuit Community to...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Jan 29, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
To date, I have had about eleven years of Jesuit education. High school, college, and graduate school. I drank the Jesuit ‘kool-aid’, and being a Jesuit has formed who I am and how I see the world. I expected that to continue now in my regency, teaching...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jan 28, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
I laughed at the cross. In a moment of profound irreverence, in the midst of a 30-day silent retreat, I beheld the candle-lit crucifix hanging high on the wall of the chapel just behind the empty altar, and I laughed. I laughed out loud. Why, you wonder? Well, to...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
“We’ll sing number six hundred and fifty in your song books. Number six hundred and fifty.” As I reached for my nonexistent hymn book I realized that the tiny chapel in which I and my classmates were praying had, apparently, run out of hymnals. And then a strange...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jan 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
David Lynch is not frequently mentioned in the same sentence as Saint Paul the Apostle. But both Lynch and St. Paul end up earnestly articulating the message of Jesus in a way their audiences can understand and embrace. While Paul preached around the Roman empire,...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Jan 26, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
I’m not sure exactly when it was that I fell head over heels in love with the game of soccer, but I know exactly who was responsible. From the early to the mid 2000’s, French soccer legend Thierry Henry glided across the pitch with an irrepressible combination of...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Jan 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Almost every guide about how to pray I’ve ever read begins with the instruction “Find a quiet place…” including this one from TJP’s own Ryan Duns, SJ. Of course, finding such silence grows more and more difficult, a fact that’s been brought home...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jan 25, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
The choice of faith orients everything in our lives and whether you choose to believe in God or not is anything but a casual concern. The poet Mary Oliver boldly confronts us with the question in her popular poem, The Summer Day, when she writes, “Tell me, what is it...
