Youth Ministry
This Is The Moment
What are you doing right now with your life? At this moment – right here, right now, what is happening? Someone, somewhere, has shared this
Eric Nichols
01/06/2021
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Youth Ministry
An Exercise in Gratitude
As we prepare to enter this celebration of Thanksgiving, I can’t help but find myself wrestling with my inner search for gratitude amidst the tumult of this year. What do we do when we feel powerless to find the blessings of life?
Eric Nichols
11/25/2020
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Youth Ministry
Venturing Out to New Waters
Work as if success depended on your own efforts – but trust as if all depended on God. St. Ignatius Loyola Back in early April,
Eric Nichols
10/14/2020
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Youth Ministry
500 Years to Now | Eric Nichols: Why Ignite?
Nearly 500 years ago, a man named Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola asked himself a profound and life-altering question: what could I do, if
Eric Nichols
04/06/2020
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Youth Ministry
Welcome our 2019-2020 Ignite Interns!
More than ever I find myself in the hands of God.This is what I have wanted all my life from my youth.But now there is
Eric Nichols
08/09/2019
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Youth Ministry
Renewing the Rock
It is the middle of winter in early 2009, and I am walking along the snow covered paths of the Jesuit Spiritual Center wondering at how it was that I had been led back to this place. Light is seeping through thick clumps of wet branches, and the silence in strengthens the crunch of each footstep.
Eric Nichols
08/18/2018
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Announcements
Goodbye and Hello
Congratulations to Pam Elsass on her retirement after 26 years of service to the Jesuit Spiritual Center. Pam served as business manager and hospitality coordinator.
Eric Nichols
11/17/2016
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Announcements
Happy All Saints Day!
Each of us has role models and mentors in our life who we strive to emulate in our everyday life. For me it is whose
Eric Nichols
10/31/2016
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Holy Week on the Road
During Holy Week, we traveled down to the Gulf coast in Biloxi Mississippi to host a group of high school juniors for a day retreat.
A Fragment of a Fragment on Love and No-thing-ness
Reader, Happy 5th week of lent. As we approach Easter, may your strivings bring you close to God. A few weeks ago at a retreat- a student asked me “so, what do you
Heritage
Corned beef and cabbage is not a traditional Irish dish. I remember learning this fact with a mixture of bemusement and a kind of empty
Underneath the Snow
One day in early February when I was out for a walk, I glanced at the flower bed in front of the Rock House and
Sacrifice
I love the readings for this week. I feel like they are very relevant to Lent. Peter has always been a role model for me.
