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Comment on Ignatian News Network (INN) by Video: The Responsible Bank Initiative

Video: The Responsible Bank Initiative — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:35:44 +0000

[...] Ignatian News Network joins the non-partisan group LA Voice at a meeting in downtown LA outside of City Hall, to hear about their proposed bill, The Responsible Bank Initiative. LA Voice is part of the PICO National Network, which organizes community congregations of all different faiths that fight against various local neighborhood issues and obstacles. [...]

Comment on “And with your spirit.” by Jen

Jen — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:42:26 +0000

Just a note that Fr. Michael G. Ryan is now proposing a different question: What if we just said ‘yes’

Below is an article in The Tablet just from two months ago (long after the survey referenced above)

http://m.thetablet.co.uk/article/161662

Comment on Jesuit School in Sudan Reopens by Kai Maembe

Kai Maembe — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:05:08 +0000

Hi,
I am looking for Fr Victor Odhiambo as well. I was his student when he was the headmaster at Loyola High School Dar Es Salaam.
I am right now doing my masters at Lund University in Sweden. It would be nice to get in touch with him. I am interested in volunteering to teach in Sudan. Is it possible to get in touch with him? Is he still in Sudan?
Thank you,
Kai.

Comment on Jesuit School in Sudan Reopens by John Bentz

John Bentz — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:06:28 +0000

I am sorry but I do not have contact information for Fr. Victor. Best of luck with you search online. Blessings, Fr. Jack Bentz

Comment on Jesuit School in Sudan Reopens by Marian Veenker

Marian Veenker — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:55:14 +0000

Dear Father/Sir,

I was searching on the web to get in contact with Fr. Victor Luke Odhiambo. I have known him during a time I was working as a Missionary Sister of Our lady of Afric in Kangemi in 1992-1993, Nairobi. I would be happy if you could provide me his e-mail address, so that I can contact him. You may also forward this mail to him.

Greetings,
Marian Veenker

Comment on Finding God 8 October 2010 by Jack

Jack — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:28:25 +0000

You, of course, make a good point. I would expect nothing less. Thanks for adding to the conversation.

Comment on Betting on the Inner Voice – Sean Towey, SJ by Chris Boitano

Chris Boitano — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:17:13 +0000

Towey you’re ridiculous, but I really enjoyed it. Keep writing.

Comment on Finding God 8 October 2010 by Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:25:48 +0000

I think Fr. Bentz mainly meant that God will speak to us in our most relative realm. If you are a man of war and go to battle, he might have to take you down a few pegs with a cannon ball, but not in the typical flat out “you were just hit with a cannon ball” manner. In the “you now have a lot of time laid up in bed to think about what exactly it is that you have been doing.” Much like the beginning of The Confessions by Saint Augustine when he starts off by explaining that God is all encompassing. God is everywhere, irregardless of wether we like it or not. So, point being, even when we confuse ourselves so far as to go to war and wage against others, God is still there; in us, as a people, and individual. Some people need to be told to move, some people need to be hit, and others, they will wake up later.

And to those who go on sleeping, God has given us great free will.

Also remember that the cross was made of wood. God has given us all potential, and I don’t mean all as in every one of us, because that is true as well. But by all I mean that He has given us potential within its whole. All of it. It’s all about personally acknowledging the ways in which God stirs in us.

Comment on Finding God 8 October 2010 by Barb Lulay Bryan

Barb Lulay Bryan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:55:02 +0000

I’m going to sort of disagree with you. I don’t know that the cannonball that hit Ignatius had God’s fingerprints on it. I think it was only the awakening that had God’s fingerprints on it. So why does it seem that God uses cannonballs, when sunsets do not wake us up? I think that you are asleep to what God says, you will sleep through anything. If you ignore the call to wake up, well, eventually yes, you’re going to get hit by a cannonball. You won’t hear God say “DUCK!” that’s for sure. But when you are listening, then “though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come.” That doesn’t mean that being awake will always keep you out of harm’s way. It means you will never ever be hit without some good coming of it. If you are faithful, whatever you go through will bear fruit.

I don’t think this is splitting hairs. The Cross did not have God’s fingerprints on it, after all. The Cross had our fingerprints on it. It is the Resurrection that had God’s fingerprints on it, and that because Jesus was awake to how to be faithful to the Will of God when we nailed him to the Cross. It is not the cannon ball that saves us, then, but God that saves us when we awaken and arise at the sound of God’s voice. That is the message of the Cross: If we listen and remain faithful to what we hear, God can take the worst thing in the world and make it into the best thing in the world. Otherwise, we’re going to take it in the head for nothing, and keep on sleeping.

Comment on 6 Questions 4 Paul Grubb, SJ by Glen Butterworth SJ

Glen Butterworth SJ — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:05:20 +0000

Paul, you’re officially the most popular ACTS bio – not sure if its the Jedi thing or something more existential. Anyone have any insight?