by Richard Alvia, Resident Minister and Doctoral Student in the School of Education Is Holy Week a strange name for the week of Jesus’ passion? It seems a week of torture, pain, imprisonment, denial, and betrayal, ending in the death of Jesus. It was a week of enormous crisis for…
Published March 28, 2021
Published March 27, 2021
by Kayla Schneider-Smith When I was twelve years old, a seagull swooped down and stole a half-eaten gummy candy out of my fingers on the boardwalk of Ocean City, NJ. I saw everything as if through binoculars: the reptilian talons hovering just above my right shoulder, the pale, beady eye,…
Published March 26, 2021
by Germain Clerveau, S.J., Jesuit Fellow One year since the Covid-19 pandemic began, we have all lived moments of fear, grief, anguish; but of questioning God’s presence. Humanity is sick, and in the grip of the forces of evil and death. Yet God, I believe is rich in mercy, and…
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Published March 25, 2021
by Lourdu Mummadi, SJ, Jesuit Fellow The season of Lent reminds me of imagery of the ‘alarm clock.’ As we know, the primary functions of an alarm clock are to alert at a specified time and to awaken individuals or a group of individuals from their sleep or nap. In…
Published March 21, 2021
by Barwendé M. Sané, SJ., Jesuit Graduate Fellow Lent is a period of repentance through the three pillars: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. And repentance is about listening to God and listening to others. In meditating on the gospel of St. Luke (4:24-30) alongside the reading of Second Kings (5:1-15), I…
Read More Lenten Reflection Series: What Could We Learn from the Little Ones ?
Published March 19, 2021
by Mike Hughes, Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Enrollment As I write, Easter is two weeks away, and Spring is a day away. The last two days of rain have given way to sunshine. I went to mass at St. Agnes last weekend, and masks aside, it was a wonderful breath of normalcy. The…
Published March 19, 2021
By Erin Brigham, PhD, Executive Director of The Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition and Chief Mission Officer I grew up in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. The icy cold, short days of winter sometimes felt endless. I know what it feels…
Read More Lenten Reflection Series – Spring Returns: An invitation to stillness
Published March 17, 2021
By Porsia Tunzi, Resident Minister and GTU Doctoral Student When I was little, my mom saw girls Irish dancing at St. Paschal Baylon School in Thousand Oaks, CA and she knew immediately that her red-haired Irish daughter must give it a go. So, at five years old, my parents signed…
Published March 15, 2021
by Mike Hughes, Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Enrollment I have a reservation for Mass this weekend. Funny to have a reservation for Mass, but many things are funny these days. It will be an appropriate benchmark for Lent, since it’s been a year now that we’ve been deprived of the…
Published March 13, 2021
By Kathleen Shrader, Resident Minister and Doctor of Nursing Practice student In the first reading today, we are invited to ‘return to Yahweh’. In the last few months, I have felt so spiritually dry. As a nurse, I’ve been emotionally and physically over-worked, and it’s been really challenging for me…
