From the category archives:
What the deal with self-flagellation? (There’s a lively discussion in the comments.)
Jim Martin, SJ, sets Glenn Beck right.
Jesuits go green.
Some thoughts on the Examen.
Paul Coutinho, SJ, on forgiveness in Lent.
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The best way to savor the graces of Ignatian spirituality (usually) is to make the Spiritual Exercises. Opportunities to do this have greatly expanded in recent years. The most common way to make the Exercises now is a “19th annotation” retreat, named for one way that Ignatius Loyola himself offered the Exercises in [...]
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Jesuits come from many walks of life. Brother Pat Douglas, SJ was trained as a clinical social worker before he entered the Society. In this video he talks about his vocation and his work among at-risk Lakota youth on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota.
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Maureen Waldron of Creighton University thinks that Jesuits should make special efforts to expand the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises to include the lay people who work in Jesuit/Ignatian ministries. “Freely offering them the Exercises, will support partners in ministry in exploring more deeply the roots of Ignatian spirituality and help them have a clearer [...]
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I would like to be like Gary Smith, SJ. He does heroic and humble work with refugees in Africa. I have written about him here before. To feel the spirit of the Jesuit Refugee Service, read this letter that Gary recently wrote about his work in South Africa. It’s harrowing, but also extraordinarily moving:
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Every year some 100,000 undocumented minors are picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol as they try to enter the United States. Posada is a 55-minute documentary film that tells the story of three who stayed. The film was written, produced, and directed by Mark McGregor, SJ, who teaches film at Gonzaga University. [...]
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David Neuhaus, SJ, is an unusual man. He was born into a Jewish family in South Africa, which emigrated to Israel when he was teenager. At age 15 he got to know an elderly Russian Orthodox nun named Mother Barbara. He was impressed by her joy and serenity. As he tells the story
One day, I [...]
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Yesterday the US House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the six Jesuit priests and two women murdered in El Salvador in 1989. The dead are Jesuit Fathers Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segundo Montes, Amando Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, and housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter Celina Mariset Ramos. [...]
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Meet Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, an astronomer who works at the Vatican Observatory Research Group at the Mount Graham Observatory in Arizona. Brother Guy is a popular writer as well as a working astronomer. See his article “Astronomy, God, and the Search for Elegance,” a piece about the place of faith in science, which concludes:
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This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for urban education. Cristo Rey schools serve the urban poor. 99 percent of their graduates go to college. The schools are partly financed through their students’ paid internships at local businesses. Many [...]
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