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This Lent, says Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, take the time to “bother.” He points out that the people who angered Jesus were people like the two guys who ignored the wounded man in the parable of the Good Samaritan. These are people who didn’t bother to love. He goes on:
So this Lent, instead of fasting, [...]
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My sister and her husband, who live in Oregon, had their inaugural bike ride of the season yesterday. She wrote that the sun was shining, daffodils are up and blooming, crocus fields are thriving and it was 65 degrees as they rounded the road on their way home.
It is in contrast to the unusually harsh [...]
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Ash Wednesday is a week from today. It’s time to make some plans about how you will observe the season of Lent.
Have you ever considered praying online? If you are reading this blog post, you spend at least part of your day on the internet. You might want to do some praying in the virtual [...]
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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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Paul Coutinho, SJ, an Indian Jesuit currently teaching at St. Louis University, has written two popular books How Big Is Your God? and Just as You Are. St. Louis University has released videos of four workshops on Ignatian spirituality that he gave last year to SLU staff. The topics are familiar, but Coutinho comes at [...]
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Before All Souls Day recedes too far, read this powerful piece by Michelle Francl-Donnay about facing the reality of one’s death. She refers to the last days of the Jesuit Alfred Delp, killed by the Nazis:
Delp’s final writings, smuggled out of prison on bits of torn newspaper, speak poignantly of how difficult he found living [...]
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