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I love the prayer called St. Patrick’s Breastplate. Today, the feast of St. Patrick, is a great time to pray it. I like the prayer because it’s an invocation of God’s protection on a journey, and a journey is a good metaphor for life. Oh, yes — the imagery of the prayer is wonderfully vivid. [...]
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A documentary on the life and legacy of Pedro Arrupe, SJ, is available for viewing on YouTube. The film was produced by Georgetown University a couple of years ago. It was uploaded through the Jesuit Channel, a YouTube channel sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The video here is the first one in [...]
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I was inspired by this video by Greg Pierce, a Chicago businessman who is a gifted speaker and writer. Here is the YouTube link.
This video is part of an online Lenten retreat that is underway at the Days of Deepening Friendship website. Pierce has just published a new book The World as it Should Be: [...]
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A Lenten reflection from Fr. Jim Martin, S.J. Turns out that fasting is about money (at least in part):
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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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“Magis” is an important concept in Ignatian spirituality. It is the Latin word for the greater or the best. It captures the thirst for excellence that Ignatius wanted to foster in those who seek to serve God.
What does “magis” really mean? That’s the question Paul Coutinho asks in this talk. Specifically, [...]
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I’m a big fan of the writing of William Barry, SJ, especially what he has to say about friendship with God. Now he’s taken his message to YouTube. This video gives the gist of the idea. For more read this article and then read his book A Friendship Like No Other.
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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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A Jesuit Off-Broadway is Fr. Jim Martin’s account of his involvement with a theater troupe putting on the play “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” The play has a compelling premise; at the behest of St. Monica, Judas is plucked out of hell and put on trial for his act of betrayal. Fr. Martin was [...]
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Brother Guy Consolmango, SJ, whom we’ve featured here before, talks to Stephen Colbert about the theological implications of the possibility of life on other planets.
The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Gold, Frankincense and Mars – Guy Consolmagno
www.colbertnation.com
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