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This Saturday is the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and there's a range of series on Pray As You Go to help you reflect. https://mailchi.mp/1c32b0094e0c/reflecting-with-the-cross-589076

The point of Paul's longest sporting metaphor, which we hear in today's first reading, is that the Corinthians must be as serious about their mission as athletes are about their training (and as Paul is about his preaching). https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20120724_1.htm

Young adults in London - come along, and bring your friends, to JJesuit Young Adult Ministries Welcome Tea this Sunday afternoon, where you can find out about the opportunities on offer over the next year. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=534953432228794&set=a.195170396207101

If all things ecological are on your mind during this Season of Creation, book your place on the Jesuit Institute's eco retreat. Contemplate certain realities and experiences to notice how God is speaking to you personally through them and about them. https://www.jesuitinstitute.org/events/eco-retreat

This Season of Creation, we are invited to hope and act with creation - and by adding an eighth work of mercy, Pope Francis certainly calls us to engage in action: https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/eight-works-mercy

The Last Station puts the life story of Leo Tolstoy (b. 9 Sep 1828) on screen. His story shows that even great men can be wrong . He forgot the lessons learned by Levin in Anna Karenina: he could embrace his love for his wife as part of his love for God. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/film_20100225_1.htm

We can notice especially the similar ways in which today's saint, Peter Claver, and Pope Francis were shaped by their Ignatian formation, wrote Peter Cousins as he looked ahead to Pope Francis' visit to Colombia seven years ago: https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/taking-first-step-pope-francis-colombia

The novels of Tolstoy (b. 9 Sep 1828) and his contemporaries such as Dostoevsky, occupy an important place in Russia’s complex religious and social history, which itself found expression through 19th century Russian literature, as Dairmid Gunn describes. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20101119_1.htm

From the archive for the Season of Creation: The way in which we think about ecological issues depends on whether we consider humanity to be different from, or fundamentally the same as the rest of the natural world. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20081021_1.htm

Young adults in London: join Jesuit Young Adult Ministries for afternoon tea a week today to meet new friends, learn about their mission and values, discover ways to get involved and attend the weekly Young Adult Mass! https://www.facebook.com/events/379344558302419/

For the government of Elizabeth I (who was born on this day 1533), for some Catholic contemporaries and for a few subsequent historians, Robert Persons exemplified the Jesuit of myth and legend. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100519_1.htm

'The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath', says Jesus in today's gospel. How easy – and important – is it to keep one of the days of the week not just special, but holy? https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/counting-sabbath-days-pandemic-days

Queen Elizabeth I was born on 7 September 1533. Daniel Kearney explores the how the early Jesuits tried to preserve Catholicism in Tudor England. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/jesuits-and-tudors

Pray As You Go hope you will discover new ways to grow in your relationship with God and the world around you through their sessions for the Season of Creation: https://ow.ly/1G4n50TgvOa

JRS UK's new report examines the experiences of homelessness among people refused asylum in London in the context of the cost-of-living crisis and following the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.jrsuk.net/destitute-and-in-danger-report/

The Spirit was greater than any individual, Paul tells the Corinthians today, even than Paul, Apollos or Cephas. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20140117_1.htm

The plea of Peter in today's gospel, ‘Depart from me, because I am a sinful man’ suggests that the original context of this scene was after the Resurrection when Peter would have been so bruised by the sin of his denials. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20120629_1.htm

How does Pope Francis’ thinking about the environment, which has been a theme of his papacy, compare with that of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI? ‘The fragile world’: https://ow.ly/J4Eu50T8Vz6

It's the first Wednesday of the month, which means that there is a live session of Imagine this evening! Bring your imagination into your prayer at 8pm GMT: https://www.jesuit.org.uk/events/imagine-september-3

What does it mean in practice to talk about ‘more’ when it comes to education? John Moffatt SJ asks what the Ignatian 'magis' really entails and why it inspires the work of every Jesuit school. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20120903_1.htm

Gregorian chant probably has little or nothing to do with today's saint, Pope Gregory the Great, whose name it bears. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090205_1.htm

‘The task of Catholic educators today ... is to offer to learners the possibility of an encounter with Jesus Christ.’ Nicholas King SJ suggests ways in which to go about this task. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20130906_1.htm

Reading for the Season of Creation: ‘In today’s world, hunger, violence and poverty cannot be understood apart from the changes and degradation affecting the environment’ - so Pope Francis introduced an 8th work of mercy. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/eight-works-mercy

Historian Thomas M. McCoog SJ surveys the religious and political landscape in which Catholics – and particularly Jesuits – became the prime suspects for the Great Fire of London, which broke out on 2 September 1666. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/setting-world-fire-anti-catholicism-and-great-fire-london

The verses of today's gospel provide us with a mini-gospel; we learn about the identity and message of Jesus, how he was rejected by his own people and how he escaped from his enemies, as he would do later when he rose from the dead. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20111017_1.htm

Freedom and responsibility enable us to make the world a better place. Only when we work together with Creation can the firstfruits of hope emerge. The Season of Creation begins today! https://seasonofcreation.org/

Jesuit Missions is providing a range of resources and events to help you get informed and care for our common home during this Season of Creation: https://jesuitmissions.org.uk/season-of-creation-2024-resources/

How do we cultivate a vision of hope, not that Earth will be spared the conflagration that seems to be coming, but that God will be with us in it, just as God was with Jesus in his suffering and death? https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/ecological-conversion-and-spiritual-exercises

Fr Eddy Bermingham was a great friend and one time neighbour to Thinking Faith. He will be greatly missed: https://www.jesuit.org.uk/news/rest-in-peace-eddy

The parables of foolish and wise bridesmaids, which we heard yesterday, and of talents used and talents neglected in today's gospel, are designed to encourage faith and perseverance. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090922_1.htm