Posts in Spirituality

Brendan Busse, SJ finds grace in a bad habit and unwittingly affirms the old Jesuit wisecrack: “Don’t smoke during prayer. But you can definitely pray while you smoke!”

Have you ever apologized before asking a question in class? Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ wonders who taught you to do that…and then encourages you not to.

Joe Simmons, SJ explores a few pages of the ‘Book of Nature’ and finds himself falling for autumn.

Jane Campion’s ‘Top of the Lake’ explores the consequences of crime more than its solutions. Brendan Busse, SJ wonders if we’re “not merely interested in who deserves to die for pain, who did it, but how to keep living when we don’t know how to bear it.”

“As I walked home I began to recognize that the invitation to be so often rides in tandem with my desire to do, and would overtake it, if I’d only let it.”

In those tearful moments, at the end of a long day, I was sure of something: like a new parent at the window of a hospital nursery, God marvels at us. And lingers.

“Severe”, “unfriendly” – the words hit too close to home. So I went back to dig around: what’s the desire underneath my reluctance? What do I want?

“I know no psychology of sleep, but I do trust my experience. I’ve grown accustomed to rushing through days long enough that I rarely let all the stuff that comes my way sink in…”