by Chris Williams, SJ | Jan 29, 2020 | Blogs, Prayers, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2 mins
Bow your head to the God who made you. Accept the commandments Forged on Mt. Sinai. Or, will you build a golden calf To be everything you want? Will you turn back to Egypt, Where you were enslaved, And where you had cucumbers, leeks, melons, and garlic? 1 Or, will you...
by Christopher Alt, SJ | Jan 22, 2020 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
It was the first day of the academic year and I was downtown Chicago, sitting in a social work class. There were about twenty-five students filling the small auditorium style classroom. Waiting. A few moments later, a stately-looking older gentleman walked in and...
by Erin Kast, SJ | Jan 20, 2020 | Blogs, Prayers, Race, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Facing our history can be disheartening and inspiring, often at the same time. Every human life – and nation, and society, and institution – is marked both by the wound of sin and the ointment of grace. In recent years the Society of Jesus in the United States has had...
by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ | Jan 15, 2020 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2 mins
In the last year, a small phrase from the Mass I’d not previously paid much attention to, I learned to love. It is the preface to the Our Father when the priest says, “At the savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say…” I recall when...
by Jake Braithwaite, SJ | Jan 8, 2020 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
When I was in grade school, I forced myself to try out for the basketball team. I never liked basketball, wasn’t particularly fast, couldn’t shoot the ball, and preferred to sit on the bench. But, everyone else was doing it, and their participation convinced me that I...
