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		<title>Finding God, January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ by Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ

It&#8217;s January and new leaves are being turned all around us. New leaves in whole new chapters of our lives.   In the world of vocation directors, this is the time when men with whom we have been in conversation come to us and say, &#8220;I think I want to apply to enter the novitiate.&#8221; Now that is the first leaf in a new chapter, not a new book but a new chapter has begun.  The book is called Discernment and this chapter is called, The Spiritual Autobiography.

Late ...]]></description>
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		<title>6 Questions with Rev. Mr. Trung Pham, SJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trung Pham, SJ, was born in Vietnam, migrated with his parents to America in 1990 and resettled in Orange County. After graduating from UCLA in Chemical Engineering, he entered the Jesuits in 1998. Inspired by the Spiritual Exercises and the Jesuit tradition for the arts, he earned a Master&#8217;s of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in New York and taught drawing and painting at Santa Clara University. He is currently studying at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and will be ordained a priest this coming June 9th, 2012 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jesuit Jargon for Discerners~</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Perry Petrich, SJ

Spiritual Autobiography



Definitions-


Spiritual:  &#8221;Of or relating to, affecting or concerning, the spirit or higher moral qualities, esp. as regarded in a religious aspect&#8221; (OED).
Autobiography:  &#8221;An account of a person&#8217;s life given by himself or herself. Also: the process of writing such an account; these considered as a literary genre&#8221; (OED).





Discussion: A spiritual autobiography is written by a person desiring to recount how God has worked throughout his or her life.  All Jesuits compose a spiritual autobiography in the process of applying to the Society of Jesus.



St. Ignatius wrote his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ignatian News Network (INN)</title>
		<link>http://www.nwjesuits.info/ACTS/archives/2164</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loyola Productions has launched a new service a YouTube channel dedicated to promoting the works and mission of the Society of Jesus. Here&#8217;s a great story on sustainability at LMU.

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		<title>Candidates Immersion Trip to Ambos Nogales</title>
		<link>http://www.nwjesuits.info/ACTS/archives/2161</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend a group of us are headed south to the border! Br. Jim Siwicki SJ, and Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, and some men discerning a call to the Jesuits will spend three days at the Kino Border Initiative. KBI, is a work of the Jesuit Refugee Service focused on accompanying men and women who are deported from the States and dropped in Northern Mexico.
This is a new project for us and we are not sure how things are all going to go exactly&#8230; but we do know the following ...]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates Weekend Made Easy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to be a Jesuit, you ought to see what life is like for a Jesuit novice. This means a visit to the one of the two novitiate sites for the West Coast Jesuits. The novices spend time in both Portland and Los Angeles and so can you.

A few things to know before you go on a Candidates Weekend.

1&#8211;The weekend is very informal.
It&#8217;s main point is for YOU, the man seeking, to EXPERIENCE other CANDIDATES SEEKING.  So don&#8217;t expect much lecturing, preaching, power points, or small group discussions. Do expect ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God, December 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.nwjesuits.info/ACTS/archives/2150</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ by Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ

&#8220;God could have created you anyway God wanted. And God created you as you are.&#8221; Time and time again I find myself saying this to folks in the confessional and to myself. Can we accept this? If God is God he is all powerful, all knowing and all the rest. So do you really think God was checking his email when you were created?

The bare facts&#8211; Our God is a God who creates us out of love and God does not create anything that does ...]]></description>
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		<title>Both Sides</title>
		<link>http://www.nwjesuits.info/ACTS/archives/2146</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ by Brendan Busse, SJ
Our Jesuit life asks us to bridge different worlds, worlds of culture, nation, and socioeconomic realities. As a Jesuit in philosophy studies here in Chicago I&#8217;m privileged to work with the Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP), a program offering retreats for homeless men and women in addiction recovery programs. This bridging dynamic of the Jesuit vocation reminds me of a particular encounter I had while driving a group of men from a shelter to a local parish for a day of recollection.

As we drove toward St. Gertrude&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jesuit Jargon for Discerners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discernment

Definition: From the root word- Discern – &#8220;To perceive or recognize the difference or distinction; to make a distinction; to distinguish or discriminate between&#8221; (OED).
Discussion: For Jesuits discernment is about perceiving or recognizing the call of God. Everyone one is called by God to something, but to what? Sometimes this call is to change something e.g. to join religious life, other times it is a call to stay the course, e. g. continue in dental school.

There are different tools to help discernment such as conversation with people who know and ...]]></description>
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		<title>December 3 &#8212; St. Francis Xavier, SJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This just in-
Jesuit historians working in Japan have unearthed artifacts shedding light on the missionary work of St. Francis Xavier, SJ.
A unnamed source says, “This is major!”
The major cache consists of a perfectly preserved saki coaster found in the remains of a 16th century Japanese saloon. The rice paper coaster is covered with what looks like a To Do list written in the hand of St. Francis Xavier.   While famous for his stirring letters written from the Far East to an isolated Europe, the mind of the saint is ...]]></description>
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