Deep Calls to Deep 50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #6: Vocation within a Vocation (C)
It’s funny. I learned to be an adequate lector. I felt terrified of teaching, of standing up in front of others to teach. Yet… From the very first time I preached, almost 40 years ago, I felt I had something to say to the people of God. Go figure. I taught Eucharist & Sacraments for […]
50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #5: Vocation within a Vocation (B)
Joy + Study + Suffering have been the foundation of my relationship with God and of composing liturgical music. Now, just in case you have images of all being sweetness & light, didn’t happen. It’s more about slugging through the “stuff” of life with moments of facing it and more time avoiding it all. Such, […]
50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #4: Vocation within a Vocation (A)
Why do some doors open and others close? Providence? Surely. Coincidence? Can’t rule it out. Once I entered the novitiate, I met fine guitarists – Greg Christoffel & Bill Laird – and new composers – Bill Geiger & Dan Schutte – who were already there. What a mystery is life!
50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #3: The Roots of Vocation during high school
This is what the eight of us looked like when I was a sophomore at Creighton Prep, ca. 1964 or 1965. Lots of personalities there. Still are. Here is another set of stories.
50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #2: The Early Roots of Vocation
It is good to remember my roots so as to be mindful of the blessings & burdens, the joys & the sorrows of life that I bring into my every-day-ness. This is quite the photo of grandma & grandpa, mom & dad, my sister, Joanne, and me. Them’s my roots! People of the land.
50 years a Jesuit – Video reflection #1
Here is one way to celebrate 50 years – to remember the men who entered this day in 1967, the men who have died since then, and the several who continue to serve. God bless us all! –roc,sj
Celebrating 50 years in the Society of Jesus today
[David Matzko, SJ on the right. On the left, moi… in cassocks in 1967] Yes, I entered the Jesuit Novitiate at St. Bonifacius, MN with 18 other young men on September 1, 1967. Who knows where the time goes? During the next week, and beginning this afternoon, I will post a series of videos reflecting […]
21st Sunday Ordinary Time – “the gates of Hell/Hades shall not prevail…”
“The gates of hell??” Didn’t know they were that war-like. Not even the gates of Mordor came out to battle. Hmmm. There are a couple keys in this passage that help us a bit, I believe – púle and hades. Matthew establishes a network between this passage and the following one. Which gate? Matthew 7:13f […]
21st Sunday Ordinary Time – “On this rock I will build…”
Jesus proclaims his church to be built on rock. I offered a view of what “Church” means in this passage yesterday. Today, let’s look at petra, “rock” and oikodomeo, “to build.” Here again is our basic text: Matthew 16:18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build […]
21st Sunday Ordinary Time – “I will build my Church…”
Most Catholics and bunches of Protestants know that this is the text that the Roman Catholic Church goes to in order to buttress our idea of and practice of having a pope. That’s what we do. I took a different tack and looked at one line in Matthew chapter 16 in order to at least […]
Deep Calls to Deep 