This is the second time “Gabriel’s Oboe” has appeared in our occasional “Best Ignatian Songs” feature. (The first time is here.) The occasion is the opening of a musical based on the movie “The Mission,” a great film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. The musical opened this week [...]
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Authors are all over YouTube talking about their books. This interview with Bert Ghezzi about his book Voices of the Saints is one of the best author videos I’ve ever seen. The book is a terrifically informative and entertaining look at 365 saints, classified in themes (examples: humility, joy, twenty-something saints, married saints, saints who [...]
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What does Halloween mean? Why does All Saints Day follow the next day? Jim Martin, SJ, explains it all. (Click here if you can’t see the video.)
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The story St. Ignatius has been told many times, usually with great solemnity as befitting one of the church’s great saints. Here’s a different way to do it. The narrator of this animation is a stuffed Spanish olive. It’s a delightful production from the Fairfield University Media Center. (If you can’t see the video, click [...]
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A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant’s song “Wonder.” I think it’s a song especially about disabled children, but it applies to all children. Maybe that’s why it came to mind today, when my wife and I are in New York visiting two of my [...]
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John Predmore, SJ, says that Jim Croce’s classic ballad “I Got a Name” “best reflects the events in my life that have led me to trust more fully in God.” He says that the lyrics extol Ignatian freedom. And I’m gonna go there free Like the fool I am and I’ll always be I’ve got [...]
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Stephen Colbert interviews Lisa Miller, author of a new book on heaven. Watch the video here.
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The Best Ignatian Song feature of this blog has been on the shelf for some months. I’ve dusted it off to feature the “String Quartet No. 1: Good Friday Meditation” by Andrew Leonard, a recent Boston College graduate who is spending the summer with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Leonard, a pre-med and music major, says [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, thinks so. (Click here if you can’t see the video.)
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