
Jesuit Institute on Radio Veritas
By , on 9 March 2010.From March 5th to April 4th, Radio Veritas will be broadcasting in Johannesburg and Pretoria on FM 98.9.
Also on DSTV audio channel 170 and audio streaming by clicking the 'listen now' button on the Radio Veritas website on http://radioveritas.co.za/site/.
You can hear programmes from the Jesuit Institute as follows.
Every day at 8.45am:
“Pray-as-you-go” – a 10 min meditation
Mon 11am-12 noon and repeated 9.00pm -10.00:
“Teach us how to pray” – phone-in
Tues 11am- 12noon and repeated 9.00pm -10.00:
“God at work” and “Ignatian meditation”
Wed 11am-12 noon and repeated 9.00pm -10.00:
“Catholic Comment” with Fr Chris - phone in
Thurs 11am-12 noon and repeated 9.00pm -10.00:
“The Art of God” – faith in films, fiction, etc
Thurs 3pm-4pm and repeated 9.00pm -10.00: “Letsemeng” – Puleng talks about the Tsoletsa programme in Sesotho
Fri 11am-12 noon and repeated 9.00pm -10.00: “Lenten Lectures”
Praying with and for Parliament
By Raymond Perrier, on 16 February 2010.Lent 2010 will see our legislators receiving daily e-mailed spiritual reflections. This is a joint initiative of the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) and the Jesuit Institute of South Africa. It began as an idea of Fr Peter-John Pearson for the benefit of Catholic members, but will now also be offered to MPs of other Christian denominations and other faiths.
Each day during Lent subscribers will receive an e-mail comprising of an inspirational quotation, a brief reflection and a final prayer. The format is is influenced by the highly successful Irish Jesuit website Sacred Space, which has enabled thousands of people around the world to pause briefly at their work-stations and spend a few moments in reflection and prayer.
The flow of the reflections is flexibly based on the themes from St Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises. The hope is that this Ignatian approach of 'finding God in all things' (as for example in the natural world or the arts) will enable MPs to seek and experience God's presence in their work during and beyond the Lenten season. The quotations are taken from a range of sources from the scriptures through prophetic thinkers like Gandhi to contemporary secular figures such as Nelson Mandela.
A further service will be the fielding of e-mailed prayer-requests. These will be funnelled through Fr James Fitzsimons SJ to a small team of people who have undertaken to pray for the parliamentarians and their intentions.
If you would like to receive these reflections e-mail info@jesuitinstitute.org.za and enter 'sign me up' in the subject box.
Where was God?
By Raymond Perrier, on 26 February 2010.This question is one that is often asked in the face of immense tragedy. Where was God when the earthquake struck Haiti? Where was God in the mudslides in Madeira? Where is God when there are droughts in East Africa or floods in South East Asia? But it is also a question that we ask in the private tragedies of our own lives: in the face of the loss of a child, or the breakdown of a relationship, or the steady, dull pain of the everyday.

Public Figures, Private Lives
By Anthony Egan SJ, on 23 February 2010.There are three Presidential candidates. Candidate A is a non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian. Candidate B is a heavy smoking, borderline alcoholic with suicidal depressive tendencies. Candidate C is an adulterous chain-smoker (who also likes the odd glass or three). How will you good people vote?

UBuntu Trek
By Chris Chatteris SJ, on 12 February 2010.DAVID MACGREGOR of the East London Daily Dispatch writes about one South African woman's search for the spirit of ubuntu.
Its tenacious survival, particularly among the poor, reminds us that we do not live by economic indicators alone and humanity can still transcend the limitations imposed by our material conditions.

Twenty Years On
By Anthony Egan SJ, on 9 February 2010.Do you remember February 2nd to the 11th 1990, that ‘long week’ that shook the world, beginning with the unbanning of the African National Congress and other political movements and culminating with Nelson Mandela’s release from Pollsmoor Prison?
I remember a discussion with colleagues in the Religious Studies Department at University of Cape Town the week before February 2nd. Some of us intended to be at the demonstration planned outside Parliament that day. Suddenly, quietly, one of the professors said, “I have a feeling [then President F W] De Klerk is going to surprise us. I think he’ll unban the ANC and release Mandela next week.”

The miracles of Haiti
By Chris Chatteris SJ, on 27 January 2010.The press has been full of the word ‘miracle’ recently. Stories about people being found alive in the rubble of Haiti – nine, ten, even 14 days after the earthquake. When confronted with such unexpected events the reaction even of the most cynical is to exclaim: ‘It’s a miracle!’
The skill and determination of the rescue teams who succeeded in digging people alive from the rubble days after the quake restore one's faith in humanity, and for one man at least, also in God.

Ignatian Spirituality: A Spirituality of Desire
By Annemarie Paulin-Campbell, on 25 January 2010.After a break and at the beginning of a New Year, we are perhaps more inclined than usual to ask ourselves the question, what do I really want or what do I desire? It is a far more important question than we might realise. It is fundamental to our spiritual life. While we may have got the impression that desires are somehow bad or at least not very spiritual, in fact, discovering our deepest desires is the key to uncovering what it is that God desires for us.

The Spiritual Appeal of Pandora (Film review - Avatar)
By Anthony Egan SJ, on 25 January 2010.James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster movie "Avatar" has been criticised by the political and religious right for being anti-capitalist, anti-militarist, "neo-pagan‟ and "pantheist". Though less hostile, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano were critical of its latter aspect, seeing the film as endorsing pantheism – the worship of nature. Are they right? More importantly, why does "Avatar" appeal to so many people? What can Christians learn from it?

Cabinda and the World Cup
By Chris Chatteris SJ, on 20 January 2010.Terrorists are such effective geography teachers! Who could have located Yemen quickly without Google Earth until the Christmas Day bomb attempt on United Airlines? And who even knew of the existence of the Cabinda Enclave until the Togolese soccer team was attacked on its border?





