Posts in Spirituality

Brendan Busse, SJ foolishly begins hoarding food in a fearful moment and discovers again the beauty of the surplus in the vulnerability of the poor.

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.

Joe Simmons, SJ trades in his midwestern autumn nostalgia for the warm hills of California and finds himself (literally) running to 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!”

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.