Shame and fear are never good reasons to stay away from God. Angelo Canta, S.J., reflects on how shamelessly placing ourselves before the Lord opens pathways to healing.
Encountering the Thriving and Universal Church at SEEK
SEEK gathered 20,000 Catholics in one place—and what emerged was friendship and consolation. Luke Lapean, SJ reflects on how encounter, curiosity, and shared faith reveal a Church that is more thriving and unified than most assume.
Ignatian Contemplation: A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethsaida
Ignatian Contemplation is a distinctly Jesuit way of praying with Scripture that invites the reader to enter the scene using their imagination. As you watch this video prepared by Alex Hale, SJ, allow the video’s prompts to guide your prayer on the man healed at Bethsaida.
What Makes Jesuit Community Feel Like Home
The externals certainly help, but when you want to know what really makes a Jesuit house feel like a home, you have to dig deeper to discover what we really hold in common.
#Blackouttuesday: It Wasn’t About a Trend, It Was About Real Life
My interpretation of #BlackOutTuesday: mute the self-centeredness of social media and heed the words of Psalm 34:15: “The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.” It was a call to learn something, and maybe even do something. What did you learn yesterday? Anything?
His Name was George Floyd
How can we respond to another unarmed black man killed by white police officers? We need to read MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and look to Jesus’s example of righteous anger.
After George Floyd’s Suffocation: A Litany for Oxygen From a Black Jesuit
While many fear contracting COVID-19, a respiratory illness, the death of George Floyd reminds Black people that we must also worry about the police blocking, or stopping, our respiration.
Creating Together: Jesuits Invite You to an Interactive Art Retreat
Inspired by Pope Francis’ call to conversion, community-building, and creativity, I thought why not create a retreat and make it virtual for those who might also be feeling just as cooped up and restless as me. So, that’s what I and several other Jesuits with whom I live have done. And you can participate in the retreat too!
Drawn into Friendship: An Interactive Art Retreat
Join us for an interactive art retreat, presented by Christopher Alt, SJ.
What I Learned About Grace From My Nursing Clinicals
How a painful experience with one patient returned a hundred-fold just minutes later with another.