Ready or not, the English speaking Church in the US is changing to a new translation of the Roman Missal this Sunday, November 27th. After years of preparation, revision, revision of the revision, controversy about the revision, parishes across the nation will pray a creed without the “we” and invite God “under our roof” and remember a Jesus who used a “chalice” at the Last Supper.
How are we going to like this? How is it going to change the way we worship together?
The site What if we just said wait? …

The struggle to articulate something that is at once obvious and at the same time inchoate underlies the emotion of the various Occupy movements. And this struggle is taking shape in the arts and beginning to register with people in ways that are at once subtle and profound.

 
The media is beginning to pick up on how the art world is collecting the voices of this time, preparing for future exhibits.
How the Art World Propels Occupy Wall Street
Art Arises from Occupy Movement
And if you’re interested in following how this particular angle …

 
In the year 1611, French Jesuits first entered into what is now Canada.

Filled with missionary zeal they lasted two years before returning to France to regroup. But they came back! And founded the first college in Canada in 1635 beating Harvard’s founding in the States by one year. And have never looked back ministering to the First Nations as well as wave after wave of arrivals from all parts of the world. We celebrate and hope to imitate their unquenchable missionary spirit!
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Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, has written a new book on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. And I read it. And it’s excellent! Called The Ignatian Adventure, this meaty volume is perfect for anyone praying through the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life retreat with a director or trying to get the hang of Jesuit spirituality going solo.

Perhaps because God got to him before he read any theology or philosophy, St. Ignatius of Loyola was able to trust God was trying to speak to him. No one had told him to be suspicious of his own interior life, that his human desires might be dangerous. Nope. He just figured that since God was good and God had created him, then the things he most wanted must be good. His spiritual task then became one of learning to listen to God speaking to him through his desires. This …

Where are you currently missioned and how’s it going?
I am currently missioned to Bellarmine Preparatory School in Tacoma, Washington where everyday I get to watch Jesus and the wonderful faculty and staff transform the lives of our students and their families.
When was the first time you thought of being a Jesuit?
After deciding that I did not want to be a diocesan priest I stopped near Ovando, Montana to fly fish and pray about my vocation. I felt that I still had a vocation to the priesthood even if it was …