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    Two nights ago I witnessed an annual event which has become one of my favorite events of the entire year: the Christmas pageant at my daughters' school. We have the best music teacher ever there, and what she...
    I often flinch inside when someone wishes me “happy holidays.”   “What’s wrong with saying ‘Merry Christmas?’” says the annoyed inner voice. Nothing, of course, but nevertheless I’m trying to get over my flinching. Hardly anybody who says “happy holidays” does...
    About ten days ago I went to a performance of Handel's Messiah by the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan.  I do this almost every year.  A week later I was in New York for a funeral. ...
    Last Wednesday, we had a blizzard in Omaha and Creighton University was closed.  Nine inches of snow was whipped by a ferocious wind onto roofs and in doorways.  Suddenly, in the midst of my busy week,...
    I would like to be like Gary Smith, SJ.  He does heroic and humble work with refugees in Africa.  I have written about him here before.   To feel the spirit of the Jesuit Refugee Service, read this letter that...
    Nathan O'Halloran, SJ on Ignatius at the movies. A new online Jesuit magazine, New Jesuit Review. Robert Lauder tackles life's big question. Michelle Francl-Donnay on rough prayer. Michael Magree, SJ on irony. David Nantais rocks with Bruce Springsteen.
    The other morning while running on a treadmill at the local gym, I was jarred out of my early morning daze by a line sung by Chanticler, a famous men’s a cappella group who were performing for the Today...
    Ignatian spirituality owes a great debt to Aristotle. Not a surprise, really--Ignatius absorbed the theology of Thomas Aquinas, who imbibed the philosophy of Aristotle (by way of his teacher, Albert the Great, and in conversation with Muslim and Jewish...
    Today we welcome another blogger to dotMagis.  He is Ed Peck.  Ed is the founding executive director of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. He joins Maureen Waldron,  Tim Muldoon, and me as regular dotMagis bloggers. Ed will publish his first...
    My friend and colleague Jim Campbell recently discovered a Jesuit calendar that's a great resource for anyone interested in all things Jesuit.  It was developed by Otto Sayre, SJ, a German Jesuit.  The calendar pays special attention to the German...

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