by Jorge Roque, SJ | Jan 10, 2020 | Film, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
“Criminal lawyers see bad people at their best. Divorce lawyers see good people at their worst.” Alongside this memorable pronouncement from “Marriage Story,” I want to append St. Ignatius of Loyola’s observation that desolation, more than just a feeling, is a...
by Mike Martinez, SJ | Jul 19, 2019 | Pop Culture, Spirituality ~ Approx. 7 mins
Spiritual athletes, have you been whipping your soul into shape with the first five steps of the Ignatian “summer-soul” workout plan? [Click here for Part 1 if you missed it!] If so, awesome. Keep it up! If not, now’s the perfect time to renew the commitment for the...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Mar 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 11 mins
After three years of teaching high school boys, I have developed the habit of trying to make whatever I teach as explicit and as practical as possible. So, let me ground this discussion of Imaginative Prayer in a little thought-experiment. Imagine that you are in a...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Mar 1, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 5 mins
Teaching in a high school as I do, maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised at finding myself utterly unable to get any distance from sarcasm these past few days. Being unable to run from sarcasm, I decided to imitate Nietzsche (that great educator of Christians) and do...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Feb 24, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
You can tell a lot about a person by what they read. I, for one, love perusing people’s bookshelves – it gives such a view into what has informed their thinking and what forms their worldview. But all bets are off in a Jesuit community. A Jesuit community bookshelf...
