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As I gain some distance from my immersion in watching the Winter Olympics, I’ve been distilling in my mind the lasting impressions. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Olympics–it’s part Greek history, part supreme athletic comptetition, part incredible storytelling, part national/international pride. Underneath all the corporate sponsorships, the sometimes not-so-latent nationalism, the training [...]
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Last month America Magazine awarded its 2009 Campion Award to Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury– a remarkable move, since the award is named after St. Edmund Campion, one of the English martyrs. Williams writes movingly of “martyrial ecumenism,” which I take to mean the shared witness (Greek marturion) to faith in Christ, even [...]
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Consider this my “overthinking the Super Bowl” post. (Wait till I get to the Olympics!)
First things first: I’ve always loved sports, and I’ve always enjoyed the Super Bowl. I just love the pure fun of competition, and at least during my adult life I’ve thought that sport reveals something about the human condition and the [...]
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I’m three weeks into a new semester of teaching a course on Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College. It’s an absolute delight, both for the subject matter and the smart students with whom I share it. I’ll be posting some reflections on our conversations as time goes on.
This week, what sticks with me from last evening’s [...]
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…is a child sleeping. I am sometimes awed by just the feeling that rises up in me when beholding one of my daughters asleep; it is an intense experience of grace.
What makes that statement more than pious nonsense, I think, is the fact that the experience can come unbidden even a short time after the [...]
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I am on retreat with some forty Boston College students. For five days, we are keeping silence together and attending to the mystery of God.
During a meeting with other guides, an older Jesuit remarked that those who shared the long retreat–thirty days in silence–emerge as lifelong friends, even without having spoken to each other.
I believe [...]
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Sticking with the theme of new year’s resolutions, I’ve been thinking about a common one: getting fit.
It struck me yesterday, while watching a Boston College women’s basketball game with my two girls, 10 and 7. Lots of talent on the floor, on both sides of the ball; it was fun to watch, especially with my [...]
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I’m not one to make new year’s resolutions, but because my calendar now says 2010 I can’t help but think a little about them.
I just finished a review of Christopher Jamison’s fine book Finding Happiness, which is perfect for those of a resolution frame of mind. Written by a Benedictine abbot (of Worth Abbey, in [...]
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December 21 is the feast of another great Jesuit saint, Peter Canisius. Let this post represent a shout-out to Buffalo’s Canisius College and Canisius High School; Jakarta’s Canisius College (secondary school); and Berlin’s Canisius Kolleg (secondary school).
The Dutch-born Canisius (1521-1597) was one of the early first-generation Jesuits. He met Pierre Favre, one of [...]
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Two nights ago I witnessed an annual event which has become one of my favorite events of the entire year: the Christmas pageant at my daughters’ school. We have the best music teacher ever there, and what she gets the children to do is magnificent. Last year, it was drumming modeled after the [...]
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