For the past 29 years, a New Year’s Eve Interfaith Prayer Service celebration has been held at St. Ignatius Church at 740 North Calvert Street in Baltimore City. Started in 1993 by the pastor, Father William Watters, S.J., the Service has gathered representatives from many different faiths, government services and various city programs to thank …
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The day after celebrating Mass on July 31 in the Basilica of Loyola in Spain for the Feast of St. Ignatius and the conclusion of the Ignatian Year, Father General Arturo Sosa was on a plane for the USA East Province, his first visit to the province since its creation in 2020. Having tasked the …
St. Ignatius, awed by mystery, draw our eyes ever upward to the heavens.
A song for the Ignatian Year, “Carry You,” has been released by Jesuit Tracks, a new musical collective for Jesuit musicians and colleagues. With a folk / electronic vibe, and lyrically based on the life of Ignatius of Loyola, the single was composed by Phil Hurley, SJ (Jesuits USA East), produced by multi-instrumentalist and Chilean …
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May 20, 2022 – For Jesuits, May 20 is not just another date on the calendar, but rather a pivotal moment in our founder’s history: It marks the anniversary of the spiritual conversion of St. Ignatius. St. Ignatius was struck by a cannonball 501 years ago today during the Battle of Pamplona, leaving him with …
A lot can happen in a century. Little could the soldier Ignatius of Loyola have known when he was badly wounded on the battlefield in 1521 that in a mere hundred years he would be canonized in the Catholic Church. But that’s all it was—one century. Last May, we celebrated the 500th anniversary of St. …
By Fr. Hernán Paredes, SJ These are some of my memories of my participation in the beatification ceremony of Fr. Rutilio Grande, SJ, Nelson Rutilio Lemos, Manuel Solórzano and Fray Cosme Spessotto, OFM on January 22, 2022. My earliest memory about Rutilio Grande turns me back to the city where I was born, Quito, the …
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How do we pray for peace from half a world away? How can words salve and soothe real wounds, assuage real fears, wipe tears from real eyes?
By Mike Gabriele Pride goeth before a fall. This familiar phrase describes all-too-well a very fateful day on May 20, 1521, when the governor of Spain urged a Basque soldier named Ignatius of Loyola to avoid an unwinnable clash with the people of Pamplona, who were now backed by the French. The arrogant Spanish warrior, …
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