by Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ | Sep 28, 2021 | Blogs, Prayers, Religious Life, Sacraments, Spirituality, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 3 mins
I am not a Trekkie, but recently, I stumbled across an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that speaks to me as I confront the death of of my friend, brother, and mentor, Father Michael Christiana. In the episode, Data, the android, asks Captain Picard a...
by Brett Helbling | Sep 23, 2021 | Current Events, GC36, Pope Francis, Prayers, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Where am I looking? What am I focusing on? These are important questions. Ones I need to ask myself often. I need to learn how to look because my perspective, that is, where I look and how I look and what I focus on, can change the reality of what I see. Sometimes the...
by Aric Serrano, SJ | Sep 13, 2021 | Art, Music, Pop Culture, Prayers ~ Approx. 1 min
Yesterday, Aric Serrano, SJ, released a new collection of music, Recollections. Today, he offers us those tracks along with his motivation for writing. The forced solitude of the pandemic led me to write music as a way of processing my experience. I wanted to write...
by Matt Briand SJ | Aug 12, 2021 | Blogs, Faith & Family, Religious Life, Spirituality, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 4 mins
This summer I’ve been struck by the number of goodbyes I have said. Some were to people I had just met; others to people I have known my whole life. But regardless of the length and depth of familiarity, each goodbye has stirred up some amount of heartache,...
by Mike Martinez, SJ | Jun 14, 2021 | Justice, Prayers, Spirituality, Topics ~ Approx. 8 mins
The Jesuits (and also Franciscans) have a long and fascinating history of promoting the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was so important, explicit mention of the devotion was added into the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus: “All should have a high...
