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
Matthew Becker
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?
Matthew Becker
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,
Matthew Becker
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
Matthew Becker
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
Matthew Becker
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.
Matthew Becker
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.
Matthew Becker
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
Matthew Becker
10/31/2016
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A Bold New Adventure
Looking back and looking forward are exercises in which I have always found great comfort. There’s just something grounding about being able to review things
Dying Before We Die
Today is a short post- in part because I’ve found that my mind has been in a fairly simple state lately, and also because I’m convinced
When Winter Comes in Spring
It began as one of those rare, special days. Not, to be clear, that any day on a grand, cosmic level is any less rare
Practicing What We Teach
One thing I love about being a youth minister is how the lessons we offer our youth are applicable to our own lives. Recently our
My Discernment (Part 1)
A goal of the IGNITE internship is to help in the discernment of its interns. Taking advantage of this time for reflection, I have recently