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God, in Whose Image We Are Made, Is Compassion
This piece, by IVC Spiritual Reflector Fr. William Barry, SJ, is a reflection on the spiritual readings and guide being used by IVC volunteers across the country. I have been asked to write a reflection to accompany our reading of chapters two and three of Tattoos on...
The River of Life
I was meeting Fr. “Bo” T. M. Lyons, spiritual director extraordinaire, for dinner at Hogwild, a great barbeque place. I had ordered the barbeque ribs and Fr. Bo was having the one pound plus barbeque pork chop. Father Bo was in a philosophical mood and started one of...
Transformers
Fantasy “transformers” are usually robots or other creatures that make radical shape-changing and other drastic modifications from one form into another. The most common real-life transformers are those that take very high-voltage electricity and change it to the...
When the Places Are Thinnest
There is a moment during every work day when I am most receptive to the Divine. It happens right around 10am. I’ve finished all my email for the moment. I’ve downed a cup of coffee. My to-do list is yet to be tackled. Some things are complete. Others are yet to begin....
Kinship
This piece, by National Board Member Jim Haggerty, is a reflection on the spiritual readings and guide being used by IVC volunteers across the country. In Chapter One of Greg Boyle’s book, Tattoos on the Heart, pp 26-27, a fifteen-year old boy, Rigo, at a...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! No, it is not that day we celebrate with champagne and football each January 1. It is the beginning of a new year of service for all IVC regions across the United States and we celebrate a bit differently. First of all, the IVC New Year follows a...
Keeping Secrets We Shouldn’t
To: People of Influence (Aren’t you all?) Have you ever felt like you share a secret that could change the world if only you had the influence to do so? I feel that way about the Ignatian Volunteer Corps. Today many nonprofits are struggling to finance their work....
The Discipline We Fear
Every year at work, we host thousands of volunteers in groups, from adults all the way down to middle school students. Usually, there is a designated leader for the group, sometimes two. Typically, this is the same person who has taken the time to contact us, set up...
Non-Stop
Airline flights between the Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. mainland are non-stop; there are no fueling places along the way, and the planes cannot land in the water. The Kolea, a golden plover, flies non-stop from Hawai’i to Alaska for the summer, and makes a return...