While we’re on the subject of social media, I thought I’d point to a couple of notable digital projects by Loyola Press, the sponsor of this website. The Press’s 3-Minute Retreat has just won the 2012 Wilbur award for web-based communications in multimedia or online video from the Religion Communications Council. This is a pretty [...]
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The Lent-Easter Ignatian Prayer Adventure online retreat started yesterday, but you can join in any time. Take a look. I thought I’d mention a couple of other Lenten resources. A couple are out of the ordinary. Other6 Prays Lent is an online community that helps you find God in the ordinary course of daily life. [...]
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A bunch of young Jesuits launched a new website yesterday called The Jesuit Post. Content will range very widely indeed. The first batch of articles include pieces on David Foster Wallace, parish masses, Tim Tebow, yoga, Paula Deen, the folk-rock band Hem, and health care reform. Editor Paddy Gilger, SJ says “this site is about [...]
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There have been rumblings about director Martin Scorsese making a film of Shusaku Endo’s magnificent historical novel Silence, about Japanese martyrs of the 17th century. Now it seems that the rumor may become a reality, according to Spero Forum. In a preface to Endo’s book, Scorsese writes perceptively about faith: How do you tell the [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin stops by the Colbert Report to promote his new book, Between Heaven and Mirth. Laughter ensues. (Click here if you can’t see the video.) The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
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I went to see the new movie The Way this week, and I can warmly recommend it. It’s one of those movies that causes you to ask “How can they make an interesting movie out of that?” Recent examples are Moneyball (statistical analysis changes the way front office executives put together baseball teams) and The [...]
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A couple of Jesuit editors have noted that the death of Steve Jobs elicited emotion akin to the to the feelings religious believers have for saints. Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, draws seven parallels between Jobs’ life and those of saints. One of them: He was the object of a [...]
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Our sister blog Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. The blog has featured images of nature, people, objects, and places, all evoking God’s presence. I love it. Many of the pictures are extraordinary. It’s a daily way to experience finding God in all things. To celebrate, Loyola Press is [...]
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Yesterday the Loyola Press 3-Minute Retreat received its 10,000th “like” on Facebook. Try it if you’re looking for a good way to pray in the spirit of Ignatius. Here’s what Elizabeth Cruz in the Philippines says about it: Visiting your website and religiously doing the 3 minute retreat refreshes me and an awesome experience to [...]
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It’s time for what I’m calling IgnatiusFest—the month-long celebration of all things Ignatian that’s becoming an annual tradition here on IgnatianSpirituality.com. Festivities begin tomorrow, July 1, and continue until St. Ignatius’s feast day on July 31. We have a calendar called 31 Days with St. Ignatius which offers something deliciously Ignatian for each day of [...]
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