A missing pin for the map and the pulse of something deep inside the chest — Brendan Busse on the desire for identity and the nations awaiting us at Magis.
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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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This Old House
“Living in an old house, like listening to old music, reminds me that I’m part of something greater than I am, something broader.”
Care-less: The Sin of Indifference
Too often, in the name of efficiency or convenience, we avoid the costs of intimacy, and in doing so we pay a steep price. But what we buy is freedom from the pain of intimacy, not an actual experience of it.
It Happens: On Spring and Other Stuff
We confuse ourselves into thinking that we make the world go ‘round, and in this confusion we run ourselves into the ground while life springs forth without our doing anything at all. It just happens.
A Slow Pitch & A Shower Scene, Jackie Robinson’s “42”
Brendan Busse wonders whether a comedic moment in the Jackie Robinson biopic is also a window into another, non-racial, story of exclusion.
Amateurism (It’s for Lovers)
“There is nothing we can do but love” said Dorothy Day. Brendan Busse couldn’t agree more, because it’s only in love – in embracing our fundamental amateurism – that we can do the same.
Given Up Yet? Then it’s Time for Renewal
What is the one thing standing between our dusty origin and our dusty destiny? The Love of God. Only this.
Giving Up for Lent, or Teaching Poverty in America
Accepting the gift of our life reveals a powerful truth: the antidote to poverty is not wealth. It is generosity.
“Who Do You Say That I Am?”
Never intimidated by the impossible, Brendan Busse asks both the religious and secular some questions about how we talk with one another.