Resource Library
Title |
Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A Brief Confession of a Bad Buddhist | Robert Bell |
Robert Bell director of writing across the curriculum reflects on the December Buddhist Holiday Lama Tsong Khapa Day. |
| A Dream Confirmed: An Introduction to Ignatian Spirituality | Rev. Gerald Fagin, S.J. |
Read five lectures on Ignatian spirituality given by the Rev. Gerald Fagin, S.J., in the spring of 2003. Each chapter begins with an outline of the talk. At the end of each lecture there are resources for further information, as well as reflection or discussion questions. |
| Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education | Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. |
In a October 2000 address at Santa Clara University, Kolvenbach addresses how Jesuit universities can "express faith-filled concern for justice in what they are as Christian academies of higher learning." |
| Education for Justice | Robert N. Bellah |
In a speech given at the Transitions 2002 Workshop at the University of San Francisco, Bellah argues that the principal role of higher education should be the promotion of justice. |
| Examen | adapted by Gerald Fagin, SJ |
A method of daily prayer developed by St. Ignatius Loyola, adapted here by Fr. Gerald Fagin, SJ. |
| Finding God in all Things | Monika K. Hellwig |
This profile of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuit order he founded offers insight into how his spiritual life and tradition has shaped the faith journey of both Catholics and Christians of other denominations. |
| How the First Jesuits Became Involved in Education | John W. O'Malley, S.J. |
O'Malley presents how the Jesuits became involved in education, what they hoped to accomplish and how the tradition developed in the foundational years of the order. Published in The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum: 400th Anniversary Perspectives. Vincent J. Duminuco, S.J., Ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000, pp.56-74.) |
| JESUIT CONFERENCE SOCIAL AND PASTORAL MINISTRIES RESEARCH GRANTS Request for Proposals 2010 | Mary Boudouin | |
| Just Catholic: Being A Catholic University In Difficult Times | V. Rev. John D. Whitney, S.J. |
Explors the Catholic identity of Seattle University. Asserts that the university's Catholic identity makes it better, stronger, more capable of serving the needs of the world and the personal development of its students. |
| Lay People in the Ignation Tradition | Monika K. Hellwig |
From the The Way Supplement published in the Spring of 1994, Hellwig addresses the adoption of Ignatian Spirituality by lay people. |
| Lenten Reflection | Karen B. Reichard |
Karen Reichard, director of the Women's Center at Loyola, reflects on the Lenten season. |
| Lenten Series Concert program | Ken Weber |
Draft of program for "What is Sacred about Rock & Roll" concert, March 3, 2010. |
| Memories of Ramadan | S Omar Ali |
A personal reflection on the Muslim holy month, Ramadan. |
| Men And Women For Others: Education For Social Justice And Social Action Today | Pedro Arrupe, S.J. |
Education for justice has become in recent years one of the chief concerns of the Church. Why? Because there is a new awareness in the Church that participation in the promotion of justice and the liberation of the oppressed is a constitutive element of the mission which Our Lord has entrusted to her.1 Impelled by this awareness, the Church is now engaged in a massive effort to educate - or rather to re-educate - herself, her children, and all men and women so that we may all "lead our life in its entirety... in accord with the evangelical principles of personal and social morality to be expressed in a living Christian witness." |
| Of Kingfishers and Dragonflies Faith and Justice at the Core of Jesuit Education | Joseph Daoust, S.J. |
Joseph Daoust, S.J. examines how Jesuit education has at the core of its mission a commitment to faith and justice, carrying out that mission through educating so that students develop an organic vision of social reality and are challenged to lives of service after they graduate. He delivered this address on October 15, 1999 as one of the Santa Clara University Lectures. |
| Reflection on Jewish High Holidays | Cantor Joel Coleman |
A personal reflection on the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. |
| Reflection on Ramadan | Cathie Eustis |
A personal reflection on the Muslim holy month, Ramadan. |
| Reflection on Yom Kippur | Carey Herman |
A personal reflection on the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. |
| The Holy Holidays | Lyle Henderson |
Reflections on the holy days of The Church of the Living God. |
| The Ignatian Mission | Rev. Howard Gray, S.J. |
Jesuit ministry is about people who want to work in ways that help other people. That humble phrase, “to help people,” was the axle of grace for Ignatius of Loyola, transforming his religious experience from an introspective examination of his own life before God to a mystic summons to see the world as God sees it. |