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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Hope for the New Year
This morning, I noticed that I have been writing a lot about hope lately. Often, I write thinking of the audience. I think of what
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
Merry Christmas from JSC
Dear reader, I don’t usually write poetry, but if you’ll humor me- I have some free verse for you. Merry Christmas. A Christmas Poem Before our ad-vene, Already
What is Prayer Like for You?
My spiritual director asked me this question during one of our meetings. We were talking over Zoom, and it was pleasant to see the trees
Waiting and Preparing
The interesting thing about the season of advent is that it is a time for both waiting and preparing. If that sounds paradoxical, it should.
