by Jason Britsch, SJ | Mar 30, 2024 | Holy Week, Spirituality ~ Approx. 6 mins
Often in life, we find ourselves in periods of waiting. While enduring a difficult situation or holding out hope, sometimes all we can do is wait. When these times come, we want to tell ourselves that the waiting will be worth it in the end – but it’s so difficult...
by Ty Wahlbrink, SJ | Aug 18, 2022 | Religious Life, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
Each year, Jesuits are required to go on an eight-day retreat. Generally, a Jesuit will have a handful of hourlong prayer periods meditating over a Scripture passage or a contemplation from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. With the exception of communal...
by Aric Serrano, SJ | Apr 14, 2022 | Holy Week, Music ~ Approx. 1 min
Life without God feels cold. The times I have felt the most numb were the ones when I chose to be distant from the divine; running away from the source of warmth. On Good Friday, the invitation is to be close to Jesus during his Passion, a time of deep suffering and...
by Ryan Birjoo, SJ | Jan 27, 2020 | Current Events, Justice, Race ~ Approx. 5 mins
“We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.”- Etty Hillesum How do we remember traumatic events of the past? Richard Kearney, a philosophy professor at Boston College, asked this question with specific reference to the Shoah.1 It is a poignant question,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 17, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
During the first week of my long retreat I was having disturbingly vivid dreams about wounded children. Every morning I’d awake having dreamt of kids in hospital beds, kids with swollen limbs, kids with gaping wounds that covered their bodies. Terrible. At the...
