by Susanna Bertelsen | Mar 25, 2021 | Featured Image
In the spring of 2019, I was reviewing the prayer experiences of the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises, preparing to “journey” with Jesus through his passion. I prayed my own “passions,” pain and concerns in conversation and imaginative contemplation with...
by Mary Noble Garcia | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured Image
My dad is a professional portrait photographer, retired after almost 50 years of being in business. Working in a photography studio darkroom in high school he began his career and learned his trade in the days when he could take photos with his 35 mm camera, develop...
by Barbara Leonard | Mar 2, 2021 | Featured Image
Minnesota was shaken with the murder of George Floyd May 25, 2020. The trial of the man who caused his death is coming in March. Even though racial disparities in Minnesota are not a secret; they are well known by people working with folks experiencing them. The shock...
by Kay Vander Vort | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured Image
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID restrictions it might be useful to reflect on these questions: HOW HAS THIS PAST YEAR AFFECTED AND CHANGED ME? OUT OF THAT EXPERIENCE, WHAT MAY BE AN INVITATION FOR ME? HOW HAVE I HAD TO ADAPT? Having adapted to so many...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured Image
Recent blog entries from Loyola colleagues about the need to nurture compassion, mercy and love invite me to contemplate the role of compassion in my own life and within the communities where I live and serve. Acutely, I become aware of the lack of compassion within...
by Karen Treat | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured Image
Middle years come with the feeling of being homesick. The feeling when remembering the calm while being rocked as a young child. Absorbing the beat of my father’s heart as it bumped along the dull humming of “Home on the Range”. The rush that comes when walking into...
