What difference does worship make? All the difference. Check out this week’s One-Minute Homily by Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ on Dorothy Day and importance of abiding in Christ.
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.
You Can’t Take it with You: Twin Cities Edition
These above-average Golden Gophers (and others) left behind contributions of the eminently practical sort.
Both Rockin’ and Prayerful
The @TJPOnTour team scoops the networks by talking to the pilgrims instead of the press secretaries — and finds out why they came: the thirst for community, and for real love and joy.
When Beautiful and Interesting Aren’t the Same Thing
Old wisdom has it that truth is beauty and vice versa. An emotional interview with Dustin Hoffman has new TJP-er wondering if the old wisdom is correct.
It’s A Boy! (In A Box?)
The stork might not actually deliver any babies in slings, but our Michael Rozier thinks a baby-in-a-box may make the world a place fit for, well, a king.
God Has Not Been Idle with the Young
Pay attention to what God is already doing if you want to know what God needs us to do. God has not been idle with the youth.
Holding Out for What’s Special
This can’t be what extraordinary looks like, I think. But it can. And it’s the holding out for something so perfectly special that keeps me from missing what’s right before me.