We are called to love like Jesus loved: with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Fr. Joseph Dickan, SJ, says this love must impact all our daily choices. Based on the readings from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Grief, Relationality, and Animals: A Call to Bother to Love
Grief at the death of animals reveals a moral obligation we too often ignore. Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ argues that if we dare to feel this grief, it becomes a call to love them as fellow creatures of God.
Unstoppable Grace: Sacraments and Sinful Ministers
Reflecting on his current studies in theology, Josh reflects on how a hundreds-year-old debate on the sacraments touched his own life and brought him healing.
Atomic Pilgrim: A Book Review
In his forthcoming memoir Atomic Pilgrim, James Patrick Thomas recounts his cross-continental pilgrimage from Washington State to the Holy Land and his later activism back home. Writing for The Jesuit Post, Luke Lapean, SJ reflects on how the memoir provocatively asks whether true success in the struggle for change lies in measurable outcomes or in the quiet, interior transformation of the one who walks the road.
Receiving Forgiveness and Exorcising Demons: St. Mary Magdalene, Pray for Us!
For the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Mario looks back to a most stirring moment from his experience of the Spiritual Exercises.
Overwhelmed by the Stress of Life? Here’s a Way to Find God in It
As a busy college student, Brian’s life was full of grace. Once he started to pray the examen again, he noticed where that grace was leading him.
A Deacon’s Diary: So when is the actual moment when we’re priests?
In his fourteenth installment, Deacon Steve gets ordained a priest.
Jesuit 101: The Ignatian Examen
The Examen Prayer is a staple of Ignatian Spirituality and St. Ignatius emphasized its importance in our daily routine. Learn more about its history and how it can help us all grow in our relationship with God.
Emergence and Dr. Strange’s Multiverse of Madness
As Christians, we believe God created the world with an inherent pattern which we can discover. Marvel’s “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” presents this pattern at the center of the Multiverse, but are they aware of it?
Accompanying like Jesus as a Jesuit Brother
Some Jesuits enter the Society of Jesus not knowing whether they’re called to priesthood or to the vocation of being a Jesuit brother. Read how one brother discovered his particular vocation.