Fr. Nouwen’s reflection on the value of desire bears some thought and prayer:
"Desire is often talked about as something we ought to overcome. Still, being is desiring: our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls are full of desires.
"Some are unruly, turbulent, and very distracting; some make us think deep thoughts and see great visions; some teach us how to love; and some keep us searching for God.
"Our desire for God is the desire that should guide all other desires. Otherwise our bodies, minds, hearts, and souls become one another's enemies and our inner lives become chaotic, leading us to despair and self-destruction.
"Spiritual disciplines are not ways to eradicate all our desires but ways to order them so that they can serve one another and together serve God."
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Who Was Saint Patrick and Should Christians Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?
by Stephen Nichols
When it comes to Saint Patrick, the true story is even more exciting than the legend and the myth. The facts are far better than the fable. This day that belongs to St. Patrick has become about leprechauns, shamrocks, pots of gold, and green—green everywhere. Famously, the City of Chicago dumps forty pounds of its top-secret dye into the river. A green racing stripe courses through the city. But long before there was the St. Patrick of myth, there was the Patrick of history. Who was Patrick?
Patrick was born in 385 in Roman Britannia in the modern-day town of Dumbarton, Scotland. Patrick opens his autobiographical St. Patrick’s Confession with these opening lines:
My name is Patrick. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen at the time.
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Never Ventured into Cooking a St. Patrick's Day Meal?
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If you've never tried cooking your own St. Patrick's Day Meal we thought a recipe to venture in might be fun. There's hundreds out there...Here's one.
VIEW RECIPE
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Update from the Hunger & Poverty Subcommittee
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The spirit of giving has been alive at Saint Ignatius for many years. Starting over twenty years ago during Advent, there was a tree, called the Jesse Tree, with paper ornaments representing various stories in the Bible leading up to the birth of Jesus. Written on the reverse side of each ornament was an item, such as gloves, hats, and scarfs, for donors to buy as a Christmas gift for people served by the homeless ministry. Several years ago, Norma Hyder, who coordinates this ministry, expanded the program to provide $25 grocery gift cards for women and children served by My Sister’s Place.
In 2007, Brandie and Dan D’Orazio began managing the Saint Ignatius Angel Tree Ministry. The Angel Tree program of the Prison Fellowship, national organization that provides gifts to children of incarcerated parents. Two years ago, Saint Ignatius had the first year of The Giving Tree, which combined all the efforts of the Angel and Jesse Trees. That year, the Giving Tree provided items for children in the hospital, the homeless community, and My Sister’s Place.
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Radio Mass of Baltimore Launches New Website
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Radio Mass of Baltimore Launched Their New Website Yesterday!
The first Radio Mass broadcast occurred on October 6, 1946, more than six decades ago. The program was the brainchild of Rev. Joseph Dougherty S.J. who was pastor of St Ignatius Church at the time. The successful broadcast of the popular and highly attended Novena of Grace, held annually at St Ignatius, inspired Fr Dougherty’s pioneering idea of broadcasting the celebration of Mass on a weekly basis. A survey of approximately 150 Novena of Grace listeners confirmed an interest in a weekly live broadcast of the Sunday liturgy
Over time, vacuum tubes gave way to digital technology and this weekend it took another leap forward. All radio broadcasts are now video taped and can be viewed through the website.
Take a look at the new Radio Mass of Baltimore website by
clicking here
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Loyola Early Learning Center ...
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Loyola Early Learning Center Appoints Full-time Director of Development
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Our own parishioner, Candra Healy, will begin next week as the full-time Director of Development for the Loyola Early Learning Center.
The Loyola Early Learning Center which opened in September 2018 as a Parish ministry of St. Ignatius Church is a private, independent school governed by a Board of Trustees. Operating year-round from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, LELC has joined the other four Jesuit schools in Baltimore: Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy (middle school), Loyola Blakefield (middle and high school in Towson), Cristo Rey Jesuit (high school) and Loyola University Maryland. Presently, LELC has 37 students, all on full scholarships, and will accept another 20 children this September.
Candra has more than 16 years of higher education experience in academic affairs. Since 2008, she has been the Special Assistant/Executive Assistant in the Dean’s Office of the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to joining Loyola, Ms. Healy was a marketing and sales executive at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. She received a BA in Business Administration and a MA in Liberal Studies from Loyola University Maryland.
As Director of Development, she will focus primarily on maintaining financial support for the children who depend on annual scholarships, funded by private individuals and foundations, to attend the school. In addition, she will be dedicated to the establishment of an endowment which will guarantee the school’s future. Working at LELC will fulfill her passion for social justice and her dedication to the service of others, Ms. Healy said: “To provide inner-city preschoolers … with a Jesuit education is a mission I feel immediately connected with.”
Many of you know Candra as a friend, and also as the Chairman of the Justice & Peace Committee here at St. Ignatius. Congratulations Candra...and Congratulations Loyola Early Learning Center for the growth you've experienced in this wonderful service you provide for the needful members of our Baltimore community!
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St. Ignatius Installs Green Screen Studio
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Another Thrust Forward in Technology
With our commitment to communicate our values, practices, directions and events with the parishioners of St. Ignatius - we've installed a green screen studio to assist in our video productions. We're excited and wanted to tell you that you will be seeing more videos to help us inform you of important information. Green screen is a technology that allows the placement of images and videos into other videos. Anyway...thought you'd like to know. Keep your eye out for various ministry video updates as they show you the things they are doing - inviting your participation.
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Tuesday, March 12 - 6:30 PM
Iñigo Book Group
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Wednesday's, March 13, 20, 27 and April 3 (6 PM)
Lenten Evening Encounters
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Thursday, March 14 - 6:30 PM
Justice & Peace Committee Meeting
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Friday, March 15 - Sunday, March 17
"Feeling with the Heart of Christ" Retreat
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Sunday, March 17 - 9:30 AM
Young Family Ministry: "Fun with St. Patrick"
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Sunday, March 17 (after 9 and 10:30 AM Masses)
Loyola Early Learning Center Slide Presentation
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Tuesday, March 19 - 6:45 PM
Women of the New Testament
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Saturday, March 23 & Sunday, March 24
VIVA House Lenten Food Collection
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Sunday, March 24 - 9:45 AM
Respect for Life
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Thursday, March 28 - 5:30 PM
Bishop Madden's Prayer Walk for Peace in the City
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Worship with Offerings, Liturgy and Prayers for Others
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POOR BOX
This week's Poor Box support goes to support the
Loyola Early Learning Center
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MASS MUSIC
Attached is the listing for the music selections at next Sunday's 10:30 Mass.
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PRAYERS OF PETITION
Attached are the Prayers of
Petition for this week.
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Lenten Growth Opportunity
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From Ash Wednesday through Easter Monday, join the Ignatian Solidarity Network and voices from the Jesuit and greater Catholic community as we consider the structures, systems, and barriers that need to be broken in order to build a more just world.
During Lent, how can we break the barriers that keep us from a world where dignity and compassion bring the justice we seek?
Subscribe now for FREE daily reflections and join us as we seek to answer that question:
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Jimmy Kimmel Caught a Bunch of People Lying About Lent
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Jimmy Kimmel’s “Lie Witness News” continues to be one of the most cringe-inducing segments on late night TV.
The set up is simple: People on the sidewalk are asked about an event that hasn’t even happened are then caught in the act of lying about having an opinion about it.
For the special Ash Wednesday edition, people were asked what they had given up for the last 40 days. As many of you (hopefully) know, Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent—not the last.
“It’s the first day of Lent, but did that stop people from lying from lying directly to Jesus’ face?” Kimmel asks viewers. You probably already know the answer. See video above
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A 'Political Town With Pastoral Needs' Anticipates a New Archbishop
Francis' pick for DC's chief shepherd may be the most pivotal of his papacy
Pope Francis is expected to appoint a new archbishop of Washington in the coming days, a high-profile pick that will be one of the most pivotal of his papacy given the nature of this unusual see and the fact that its two most recent leaders have been embroiled in the clergy sex abuse scandal.
If evaluated merely by geographical size and statistics, the Archdiocese of Washington doesn't rank as one of the heavyweights of American Catholicism. New York and Los Angeles easily elbow out the nation's capital in sheer numbers of Catholics. Boston has bragging rights as a cradle of the Irish-American success story, a city where towering archbishops once defined the Catholic braggadocio of an era when the Church loomed large as a potent cultural force.
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Why This Lent is an Opportunity to Get Our Response to Sex Abuse Right
As Catholics begin Lent in the midst of crisis, I feel like we have been here before. In fact, we have. But this time, something is different.
During Lent in 2002, Catholics were reeling from the sexual abuse revelations emerging from Boston and from across the country. Many people looked to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to take action. The bishops took initial steps at their June meeting that year, but they focused on responding to some aspects of abuse and missed the fact that the church was facing twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up. This time, both crises need to be addressed in order to get at the root causes and move the church toward recovery and reform.
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I Thought I Knew Him
The Suffering Humanity of Christ
We were still very new to the faith when my then-fiancée, Rachel, bought Magnificat’s 2018 calendar and proposed we hang it on our kitchen wall. Neither she nor I had been raised in the church, and our largely secular upbringings had left us skeptical if not disdainful of Catholicism. The Catholic funeral of Rachel’s grandfather, just ten months prior, had begun to change that. We started attending Mass. Rachel signed up for RCIA, and I reluctantly followed suit. Eventually, we grew so bold as to kneel in humility and pray together to the Lord.
The Magnificat calendar would be the first religious item to grace the walls of our illicit premarital home. This caused me some consternation. It was one thing to take a shine to the Gospel. It was something else entirely to proclaim it above the dishwasher.
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READER NOTIFICATION:
"Parish: the thought" is a publication of St. Ignatius Catholic Community, Baltimore. Each edition contains articles and news feeds that are included for awareness of current topics in our world today. The positions expressed by outside authors and news feeds are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or positions of St. Ignatius Catholic Community or its staff.
- This e-zine was compiled by John C. Odean
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