Lord God, give me joy.

Allow me to find it where it is:

in the song of a bird seen from my window,

in a flower that shows the tip of its nose,

in the smile of a child led away by his or her mother,

in all that lives and, above all,

in prayer where I hear you speak to me.

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Listening to Indigenous Voices 8-Day Retreat at Loyola House, Guelph, ON. May 18th at 7:30 pm - May 26th at 1:00 pm EDT

Facilitated by Shasha Sky & Dave Skene from White Owl Native Ancestry Assoc. &Victoria Blanco, Mark Hathaway, & Trevor Scott, SJ from the Jesuit Forum Working with the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice and Indigenous knowledge keepers, Loyola House seeks to contribute to the enactment of this recommendation through an eight-day retreat, Listening to Indigenous Voices. Based on a model of spiritual conversations, retreatants will explore the diverse Indigenous cultures of this land, unlearn stereotypes and misconceptions, explore the history of colonization that has marked relationships between Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, and seek ways to address that painful legacy by seeking concrete pathways towards right relationships, decolonization, and re-indigenization.

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We are each,

according to Plato

a spark of divine madness.

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