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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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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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“Jesus ahatonhia,” our last Christmas song of the season, is probably the first Christmas carol written in North America. The title means “Jesus, he is born” in the language of the Huron/Wendat native people of Canada. The Jesuit martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf wrote the song in that language. It is a good example of [...]
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About ten days ago I went to a performance of Handel’s Messiah by the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan. I do this almost every year. A week later I was in New York for a funeral. On Saturday my daughter and I spent the afternoon together, and I did something I hadn’t [...]
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“Silent Night” is said to be the most popular Christmas carol of all. Its main rival is “White Christmas,” which is a secular song for a religious feast. It is said that Franz Gruber composed it for guitar accompaniment because the organ in his Austrian church was broken. That’s the way the Ignatian [...]
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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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