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...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 22, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
“And your Father who sees in secret will repay you… your Father who sees in secret will repay you… your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.” Mk 6:1-6, 16-18 What are we to do with the hypocrisy of this day? I mean it’s the only day that Jesus gives us the...