By Ana Karen Barragán, Resident Minister and MA in International Studies Graduate Student Today, I imagine you sitting on the cross. I see you contemplating the reality of our world. In your gaze, I find pain, not for the thorns or the nails or the wounds in your body, but…
Read More Lenten Reflection Series: In the midst of contemplation, always you
by Mike Hughes, Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Enrollment Pope Francis is in Iraq as I write, and is scheduled to visit the ancient site or Ur, believed to be the birthplace of Abraham. Let’s pray for his safety and those who congregate to see and hear him. I’ve been reading…
By Thanh Ly, USF University Staff, School of Education As I was growing up in America, my childhood memories were surrounded by the Catholic Vietnamese community that celebrated Lent in their own special version. I remember visiting my friend Katherine at her home, which was only three blocks away. I…
by Patric Razafimahafaly, SJ We are already in the second week of Lent, so my reflection will be on the Gospel reading for the second Sunday of Lent: the Transfiguration of Jesus (Mk 9: 2-10). In this pericope taken from the Gospel of Mark, we get an indication of the…
Read More Lenten Reflection Series: A Time for Inner Transformation
by Mike Hughes, Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Enrollment I’m a firm believer that life-changing experiences don’t ever reveal themselves to you as they happen, or, in fact, ever. I learned during the 19th Annotation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius that God may speak quietly, gently, over time, while…
by the University of San Francisco Liturgical Choir
by Vincent Pereppadan, S.J., Jesuit Fellow at USF and Priest in Resident at St. Agnes Church If our faith does not stand the test, it’s not faith. A group of women, while praying, got struck reflecting on the Prophet Malachi’s verse. It said, “And he shall sit as a refiner…
by Mike Hughes, Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Enrollment One would think that at this stage of my life – someone who began studying the Baltimore Catechism in second grade in 1961 – I would have a good sense of, and a clear mission for, Lent. But I don’t. Almsgiving, Prayer,…
by Ali Balfantz, Office Manager, University Ministry When reflecting on lent, I have feelings of nostalgia from growing up in South Louisiana. Most of my community were devout Catholics and they were very strict about “meatless Fridays” during lent. My church, St. Joseph, had a group of parishioners who called…
by Fr. Donal Godfrey, S.J., Associate Director for Faculty and Staff Spirituality and University Chaplain Stephen Colbert was in good form a few weeks ago on The Late Show interviewing fellow Catholic Fr. James Martin, S.J. Asked what he was giving up for Lent this year, Martin said he finds…
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