by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
In 1998 my friend Anime Emily gave me this tape that had a “mix” on one side and Athens, Georgia indie-rock band Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane over the Sea on the other. I spent three weeks listening to the first two songs on Side A over and over...
by Jason Brauninger, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
I spend my days in a Level I Trauma Center. Most people familiar with Jesuit education imagine a Regent to be a high school teacher, but not all of us share that experience of Jesuit regency. In May of 2010, I was assigned to the Regis University Jesuit Community to...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Jan 29, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
To date, I have had about eleven years of Jesuit education. High school, college, and graduate school. I drank the Jesuit ‘kool-aid’, and being a Jesuit has formed who I am and how I see the world. I expected that to continue now in my regency, teaching...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jan 28, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
I laughed at the cross. In a moment of profound irreverence, in the midst of a 30-day silent retreat, I beheld the candle-lit crucifix hanging high on the wall of the chapel just behind the empty altar, and I laughed. I laughed out loud. Why, you wonder? Well, to...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
“We’ll sing number six hundred and fifty in your song books. Number six hundred and fifty.” As I reached for my nonexistent hymn book I realized that the tiny chapel in which I and my classmates were praying had, apparently, run out of hymnals. And then a strange...