Brave Enough to Try: Marc-André Veselovsky, SJ, and Jesuit Formation

Filled with laughter, our interview with Marc-André Veselovsky took place in a joyful atmosphere, reflecting the character of this young man. Twenty-six years old, Marc-André is not only a Jesuit but also a vegetarian, a semi-professional singer, a lover of board games (some might say the more complicated ones…), and a good listener. So, what […]

On life, laughs and lenses: Marc Rizzetto, SJ

Before our interview, I had been told that Fr. Marc Rizzetto, SJ, was very funny, very deep, and also…very busy… Nothing I learned in the interview that I finally managed to have with him did anything to dispel these rumours. As a hockey player, photographer, comic book reader (his last read was Gender: A Graphic […]

Googling God in All Things: A Psalm for Hard Times?

In the pandemic absence of public liturgies, perhaps you have found a renewed relevance to the ancient psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Although never fully out of style, they tended to pass us by during Mass, scarcely noticed, as the congregation rifled through the latest file of its collective short-term memory, searching embarrassedly for the […]

Camp Lac Simon: 47,018 Days to Grow Together

June 15, 2020 — “It changed my life!” This phrase has come up in every conversation that I have had about Camp Lac Simon. Celebrating its 64th anniversary this year, the summer camp was started through a Jesuit initiative, and the Society is still, in the words of camp director André “DD” Courchesne, the “heart […]

Connecting during COVID-19: 4 resources by the Jesuits of Canada

“The crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on at least three important challenges faced in particular by western societies: that people need to live in a community, but do not have the skills to create one easily; that political structures lose or have lost the capacity to elicit a desire to […]

History Today : Jesuits and Epidemics in New France

Today, people living in what we now call Canada are faced with Covid-19, but it is far from being the first epidemic to attack those living on this continent. For the first few centuries after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, up to 95% of the Indigenous populations lost their lives, in a large […]

Dwelling hope: Easter message from Fr. Erik Oland, SJ

During Easter 2020, more than ever, we long for a hope-filled sunrise on the horizon of the current pandemic that has enveloped the world. Still, the deepest hope of the resurrection has forever been that Christ dwells in us at all times and in all circumstances, no matter what is happening around us.

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