Tim's Books
Spirituality
Shared Silence
I am on retreat with some 40 Boston College students. For five days, we are keeping silence together and attending to the mystery of God.
During a meeting with other guides,...
Spiritual Exercises
Bodies, Beauty, and the Grace of the First Week
Sticking with the theme of new year's resolutions, I've been thinking about a common one: getting fit.
It struck me yesterday, while watching a Boston College women's basketball game with...
Discernment
Resolutions?
I'm not one to make new year's resolutions, but because my calendar now says 2010 I can't help but think a little about them.
I just finished a review of...
Jesuit History
Peter Canisius
December 21 is the feast of another great Jesuit saint, Peter Canisius. Let this post represent a shout-out to Buffalo's Canisius College and Canisius High School; Jakarta's Canisius...
Spiritual Exercises
Christmas Pageant
Two nights ago I witnessed an annual event which has become one of my favorite events of the entire year: the Christmas pageant at my daughters' school. We...
Spirituality
Faith and Action
Ignatian spirituality owes a great debt to Aristotle. Not a surprise, really--Ignatius absorbed the theology of Thomas Aquinas, who imbibed the philosophy of Aristotle (by way of his teacher,...