We are all aware of the trauma Ignatius went through after the “cannonball incident,” the shattering of his knee in the battle of Pamplona against the French. Though more in a purely physical form at…

The Ignatian spirituality is dynamic and we are recipients of many gratuitous graces.  These graces do not commence from our novitiate.  When we are directed in the one month of the Spiritual Exercises, we recall…

The carrying of a Faith-propelled love in our conscious awareness, lies at the heart of our ability to coolly and courageously handle the effects of one cannonball after another, thereby growing evermore steadier as we…

My cannonball moment happened on a local train in Mumbai, on my way to St. Xavier’s school community. It was almost around midnight in the summer of 1982. [auth] After my tertianship in Hazaribagh, I…

I had joined the novitiate in Ahmedabad a bit late - in October, hence ended between two batches. So instead of starting the Juniorate in the middle of the year, they sent me to a…

My childhood days peppered with mischievous pranks were a pleasant memorable experience with the privileges of being the single darling son amidst five girls, to my parents. Even with their minimum income as middle school…

At the age of 28, during a crisis of faith caused by unexplainable failures three times in a chemistry examination at the University of Bombay, God entered my life in a special way. One morning…