Click on video above: 'The Thought' - April 25, 2022 | |
Editor's Note: Next weekend's gospel reading is a portion from John chapter 21. Notable there is where Jesus shows calls from the beach to the disciples who are back fishing...the verbiage in the Greek indicating that hey had gone back to fishing as a way of life after the life-shattering experiences of the past weeks. Interesting how Jesus calls them again, like he did before...telling them how to cast their nets after all their failure of doing it on their own. And then there is Peter. He's already seen Jesus after the resurrection, but hasn't had that restorative talk having failed Jesus, betrayed Jesus. Well this is where it happens. Rick Stevenson shares that intimate and restorative encounter in the following article. Have at it! | |
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by Rick Stevenson
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”
“Feed My lambs,” he told Him. A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”
“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”
Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything; You know that I love You.”
“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said. “Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow Me.”
Whenever I read this scene in John 21, I pretend that I am a director making a movie. I think about what I would have the camera focus on, what the soundtrack would be like. I ask myself tons of questions about what it must have looked like and what was important. READ MORE
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Next Sunday following Mass - 2 Events! | |
It would be our honor to host you as our guest at The Loyola School Open House Sunday on May 1, 2022. We will begin our event immediately following the 10:00 A.M. Mass in The Reeves Gallery at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 740 N Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21202 at 11:00 am. Starting with Coffee, Cake and Conversation, we will begin our 20-minute tours of the school at 11:15 a.m. The last tour begins at 12:05.
We offer this day as a special thank you to our many benefactors of St. Ignatius Catholic Church to tour our classrooms and to meet members of The Loyola School, which we refer to as “TLS” administration, faculty, staff, students, and parents.
We hope that you will decide to join us. Please RSVP to Will H. Nathan, Jr. via email @ wnathan@lelc-balt.org by Monday, April 25, 2022 or call 443-563-2589 Ext. 122.
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Special Event - Sunday, May 8 | |
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- May 8 at 3 PM -
St. Ignatius Catholic Community - Baltimore
ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
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What is Considering Matthew Shepard?
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Frostburg State University proudly presents Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard – a powerful masterwork that explores through music the importance of love and caring for one another.
In 1998, Shepard, an LGBTQ student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. With inspirations from Bach to Broadway, the compelling message of this performance is still essential today and shows the significance of unity and recognizing those who feel marginalized.
The FSU Chamber Singers, in collaboration with the FSU Department of Theatre & Dance and community partners, will perform this limited engagement at St. Ignatius Catholic Community in Baltimore on Sunday, May 8 at 3pm. Admission is free, but reservations are required.
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From the St. Ignatius Antiracism Task Force | |
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Leverages Catholic social justice teachings and Ignatian spirituality practices to facilitate parishioners’ discernment of how they are being called by God to act in this space - and in the process, transition from “not racist” to antiracist.
We'll be having our monthly virtual Media Meditation session this Thursday, 28 April, from 7:00-8:00PM. In this meeting we will:
- Have an unstructured discussion on any personal reflections on this month's items.
- Pray an antiracism-focused Ignatian examen/rosary as a group to meditate upon discerning how we can each become antiracist "contemplatives in action."
Below is the Zoom information for the event. As always, everyone is welcome, and no pressure to say anything at all - you're more than welcome to just come and listen.
Additionally, rosary instructions will be provided for the inexperienced (or otherwise rusty) to use to read along and join in.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about the Task Force and how you can get involved, email antiracism@st-ignatius.net
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To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it;
Whenever you’re right shut up.
– by Ogden Nash
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A Projector for the St Padre Pio Choir | |
What "Jesuit" is all about... | |
Jesuit 101: The Spiritual Exercises, the Heart of the Jesuits | |
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The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola (Exercises) are one of the most influential writings in the history of Roman Catholicism. The Exercises are a collection of meditations, prayers, and guidelines for growth in the spiritual life. They were developed out of Ignatius Loyola’s own lived experience, and are ideally undertaken as a 30-day silent retreat. Ignatius’s great desire was to help people grow in their sense of God’s great love for them so that they could make a return of that love in whatever way God is calling. To better understand the Exercises, it helps to have a sense of how they were formed, their structure, and how they’ve helped countless people grow in relationship with Jesus.
It started with a cannonball… READ MORE
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Employment opportunities at the Loyola School | |
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The Loyola School is actively seeking to fill two positions for the 2022-2023 school year. If you are interested, or you know someone who is, please let the school know.
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The Loyola School
First grade teacher opening for 2022-2023 school year
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The Loyola School
Seeking a principal
for 2022-2023 school year
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Women Who Stay
April 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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POOR BOX
This week's collection: The St. Padre Pio Choir
Learn More
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HOW TO GIVE
How to contribute to
St. Ignatius.
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PRAYER LIST
Pray for those who are sick
and on our Prayer List.
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While the Men Were in Hiding, Women Delivered the Greatest News the World Has Ever Known | |
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BY JIM WALLIS
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here: He has risen!" (Luke 24:1-6)
Imagine what these women — these followers of Jesus — must have felt as they heard the best news in the history of the world.
In so many of the gospel stories that are familiar to us, women were behind the scenes — always there, always present, always faithful — but nearly always in the background and hardly ever mentioned by the men in the stories, and certainly not the ones writing the stories. Their testimony as women was not even admissible in court under Jewish law; the word of a woman had no public credibility in that patriarchal culture. But God chose to reveal the miracle of Jesus' resurrection first to women. They were then told to report the astonishing news of the empty tomb to the men. READ MORE
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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 designed and compiled by John C. Odean
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