In an essay titled quot The Scentsory Adventure quot from his book The Thorny Grace of It a delightful recent gift nbsp Brian Doyle writes quot You know what no one talks about when they talk about the Mass The panoply of scents the plethora of sensory adventures that enter through the door
At Forbes Daniel R Porterfield writes about the success of the Cristo Rey Network of Jesuit schools What was brand new about Cristo Rey however was the Jesuits rsquo idea for financing the enterprise mdash by recruiting businesses all across Chicago to pay a flat fee to the school in exchange f
Following up on yesterday 39 s post on God 39 s incomprehensibility I want to share an eloquent excerpt on the same subject from the work of Boston College professor Fr Michael Himes S J To begin what do we mean within the Christian tradition by the word God God is not anyone 39 s name The
The readings at Mass the past few weeks have been some of my favorite of the year especially the selections from the Old Testament We 39 ve heard on 8 31 from Jeremiah 20 7 quot O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived quot and yesterday from Isaiah 55 8-9 quot For my thou
In the latest edition of the The Boston College nbsp Chronicle BC 39 s publication for faculty and staff Sean Smith reports on the newly created Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies The Institute under the direction of Fr Casey Beaumier nbsp S J will serve as quot a locus for courses wor