Brendan Busse, SJ reflects on service and leadership in a sacramental church where invisible grace is made visible and impossible things possible.
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Brendan was born and raised in southern California. His love of narrative and social justice led him to pursue degrees in English (BA) and Theology (MA) at Loyola Marymount University. Before joining the Jesuits he served as a Jesuit Volunteer in Belize and worked in Campus Ministry at LMU as the director of Community Service and Social Justice. In recent years he studied Social Philosophy (MA) at Loyola University, Chicago and taught in the Matteo Ricci College of Seattle University. He was ordained a priest in 2017.
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So Much Closer: Jesus and Rumi, Death Cab and Red Rocks
A concert at Red Rocks leads Brendan Busse, SJ to wonder what would happen if we stopped liking mystics and musicians and started taking their advice.
How Long? Not Long: Our Need of Rest and Renewal
With millions marching around the world — for life, liberty, and justice — Brendan Busse, SJ reflects on the importance of rest and renewal in the long walk to freedom.
Away in a Manger: A Complicated Birth
Brendan Busse, SJ reflects on how the Christmas story isn’t all peace and pudding and on how deeply we need to hear it.
We Used to Be Grateful
For some it’s nutmeg and cinnamon. For others it’s cigarettes and snow. Brendan Busse, SJ reflects on memories of half-smoked cigarettes and our need of a generous thanksgiving.
Wedding Gifts and Traveling Mercies
When a happily-ever-after wedding is followed by an unexpected death in the family, Brendan Busse, SJ discovers gratitude in grief and friends in our ‘faulty’ stars.
Contagious: Love in the Time of Ebola
What if we came to understand that the lives and suffering of others already affects us?
Before You Know It: Learning to Love
Brendan Busse, SJ suggests that you might learn something – the most important thing – before you know it.
Taken Seriously: On Laughter, Life, and Loss
“We can’t banish sadness without suffering it.” Brendan Busse, SJ examines personal and public grief.