You have this huge decision to make There’s this stellar opportunity And that challenging path and six more besides Sure, you could consult the Jesuits With those time-honored techniques of discernment And maybe you’re headed…
Love Laws and the Hierarchy of Despair: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy “He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for…
Katie Kilcline did a a sharing with us in fall 2012 about her two years in Nepal with the Jesuit Volunteers. Since that immersion in a Hindu-Buddhist culture, she has finished a Master’s in Social…
If I do not love myself, I cannot love others also. If we really love ourselves, we cannot think wrongly, cannot talk wrongly, cannot act wrongly. If you know how to love yourself, then you…
Napoleon is said to have described the English as a nation of shopkeepers. It is a fitting description. They hold whatever dominions they have for the sake of their commerce. Their army and their navy…
All living beings are members one of another so that a person’s every act has a beneficial or harmful influence on the whole world. We cannot see this, near-sighted as we are. The influence of…
The Huffington Post calls her “The Sunshine Goddess,” But I just call her Anne-Margaret And she is the reason I read the Bhagavad Gita. She told me once that her job as a yoga teacher…
Chapter 12 Monday 26 August 6312 W. Park Avenue 6:30-8:00 p.m. Meditation 20 m. Recitation Chapter 12 5 m. Reflections Eknath Easwaran’s commentary on chapter 12: “Every time we withdraw our desires from some self-centered…
For our next Share the Wealth on Sunday 21 July, Nebu Kolenchery will share a short reflection on Bollywood films and the role that they play in Indian culture and identity. This will be followed…
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9: The Royal Path Monday 24 June 2013 Meditation 20 m. Two Reflections “The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in…