From the category archives:
Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, SJ, Superior General of the Jesuits, reflects on Jesuit institutions and lay people. This is from a summary of a talk he gave recently to Jesuits working in the social apostolate:
Mobility is essential to our charism; thus we need to learn a new way of discernment, to let go and move on. [...]
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Sometime over the weekend, the Ignatian Spirituality page at Facebook signed up its 5000th fan. The Ignatian community on Facebook is large and lively. Many of the dotMagis blog posts appear there too, and they often spark lively comments. Consider becoming a fan if you’re not one already.
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Nathan O’Halloran, SJ on Ignatius at the movies.
A new online Jesuit magazine, New Jesuit Review.
Robert Lauder tackles life’s big question.
Michelle Francl-Donnay on rough prayer.
Michael Magree, SJ on irony.
David Nantais rocks with Bruce Springsteen.
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Today we welcome another blogger to dotMagis. He is Ed Peck. Ed is the founding executive director of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. He joins Maureen Waldron, Tim Muldoon, and me as regular dotMagis bloggers. Ed will publish his first post tomorrow.
Ignatian Colleagues is joint venture of 24 Jesuit colleges and universities that trains administrators in [...]
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The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has announced that Mary Ward (1585-1645), the English woman who founded an order modeled directly after the Jesuits, will be declared Venerable.
See the CathAsia news story here.
See the bio of Mary at the website of the order she founded, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, here.
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I have been doing all the blogging at dotMagis since we launched the site in April. Now I have some company. Our new blogger is Tim Muldoon, a writer and theologian who works in the Office of Ministry and Mission at Boston College and teaches in the Honors Program. Tim’s first post is immediately [...]
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Not “fitting in” is an uncomfortable feeling–and a common one. Sometimes it’s a self-inflicted condition, but sometimes the feeling of longing for a home that hasn’t arrived yet is the truth of our state. Blogger Lisa Kelly thinks that not fitting is often a byproduct of the Ignatian outlook, and of the work that this [...]
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Say You’re One of Them, a short story collection by Uwem Akpan, SJ, a Nigerian Jesuit, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest pick for her book club. It’s the first time Oprah has chosen a book of short stories (and Fr. Akpan is her first Jesuit author).
Each of the book’s five stories are set in a different [...]
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Thanks to reader Bill Daugherty for our first Jesuit joke in verse form.
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I love the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He’s difficult. One critic says that a sign of excellence in a poet is the number of different ways you can read his work. By that measure, Hopkins is a great poet. But Hopkins is worth the effort it takes to read and [...]
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