On campus at Holy Cross Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ is beginning to hear the question every college senior dreads: “What are you doing next year?” He finds an answer unfolding in the present–the sacred now.
Posts in Spirituality
A Prayer in the Running
Joe Simmons, SJ trades in his midwestern autumn nostalgia for the warm hills of California and finds himself (literally) running to prayer.
Half a Pack of Prayer
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!”
Because it’s ours must it be worthless?
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.
Autumn Is Ours, But for a While
Joe Simmons, SJ explores a few pages of the ‘Book of Nature’ and finds himself falling for autumn.
Blood and Water: Sin, Suffering, and ‘Top of the Lake’
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.”
Being a Human Being, or “I Don’t Know Anything”
“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.”
32 Reasons to Celebrate Labor Day
Joe Simmons, SJ counts down 32 reasons to celebrate this Labor Day.
How God Looks at Us
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.
Remain In Love: To Live Without Leaving
Brendan Busse on the stomach-pain of leaving (Brazil, friends, World Youth Day) and the soft comfort of remaining (in love, across distance, in God).