In a talk he gave to Boston College students back in 2015, Father Himes shared the following: “I make a distinction between joy, which is something internal that springs up from within us and happiness, which is contingent on a whole array of external circumstances.” He further explained that while happiness is fickle and can change in an instant, true joy lasts. In describing his time as a priest, he said, “There have been days I have not been happy, but there has not been a day that I would want to do anything else.”
Another one of my favorite interpretations of joy comes from the famous Jesuit priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., who once said, “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” [adopted from A Reflection for the Feast of St. John By Jackson Goodman, America Media 12-27-2024]
May God Be Praised.
“Resurrection,” by Engelbert Mveng, S.J., in the Jesuit chapel at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya
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