By dotMagis Editor

How can we live with purpose? Let’s explore that idea this week in our online retreat. In three parts, we’ll consider the demands and the benefits of living with purpose. Our guide is Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, author of Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures. This retreat draws from the ideas […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By dotMagis Editor

How can we live with purpose? Let’s explore that idea this week in our online retreat. In three parts, we’ll consider the demands and the benefits of living with purpose. Our guide is Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, author of Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures. This retreat draws from the ideas in […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By dotMagis Editor

How can we live with purpose? Let’s explore that idea this week in our online retreat. In three parts, we’ll consider the demands and the benefits of living with purpose. Our guide is Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, author of Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures. This retreat draws from the ideas […]

Click through to read the full article Living with Purpose Mini-Retreat: Day One, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Lisa Kelly

When was the last time you had a conversation with real depth and meaning, a conversation that left your worldview broader, your heart stronger, or your step lighter? I love these conversations. Rather than regurgitating a litany of calendar appointments or the latest political annoyance, these conversations get to the heart of relationship. In today’s […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Loretta Pehanich

We dance at Mass. Have you noticed? We’ll see children especially bouncing to the music, but all of us have choreographed movements. Think for a moment about the Mass as a passion play or musical. The congregation’s moves are critical to the story. Our sacred movements impact the visual beauty of our shared worship. I’m […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Marina Berzins McCoy

As I have grown more fully into middle age, I find that my prayer has become much quieter. Years ago when I was first introduced to Ignatian imaginative prayer, my prayers were long and often elaborate, full of images both Biblical and personal. Occasionally I have gone back to read my journals from those earlier […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Eric Clayton

In 2007, in the early months of my undergraduate career at Fairfield University, I stumbled upon an invitation on a bulletin board in campus ministry. Students were invited to apply for a summer immersion trip to the Philippines and Australia. The idea of a three-week adventure dazzled my freshman eyes. What better way to begin […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Gretchen Crowder

On Saturday mornings, much like the rest of the week, I’m an early riser. I like to get up, have my coffee in my quiet house, and get to the grocery store before the rest of the city (and the rest of my family) wakes up. In fact, I am one of those annoying people […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By dotMagis Editor

We can be bearers of good news even when there seems to be nothing but a preponderance of bad news. We can announce peace and share it with others rather than spread unnecessary discord. We can choose to act with love in our hearts, even when we are frightened or overwhelmed. We can do all […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Melinda LeBlanc

Have you ever felt as though, because of unsettling news or a traumatic incident, the ground you were on all of a sudden opened up and swallowed you into a chasm of desolation? The day I received my cancer diagnosis was such a day for me. Like many who have experienced this situation, I felt […]

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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. The reflections are accompanied by stunning street art from Fabian Debora.

By Vinita Hampton Wright

Many of us live on a religious edge. We are part of the church—the universal Body of Christ—but our connection to a local congregation has been disrupted. Or our trust in the larger, formal institution has been betrayed. Maybe we still attend worship services somewhere, sometimes. Maybe we still contribute time and resources to causes […]

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In The Examen Book, Paul Mitchell invites adults and children to enter into the Examen prayer together as a family.

By dotMagis Editor

St. Ignatius Loyola taught his followers that the most important moment of their day was the time set aside to pray the daily Examen. He firmly believed these few moments spent with God affect every other moment of our day and enable us to recognize God in our daily living. To help in our understanding […]

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In The Examen Book, Paul Mitchell invites adults and children to enter into the Examen prayer together as a family.

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, talks about abiding in Christ Jesus by living as Jesus lived. He also comments on the grammar of experience, in which we look at elements including context, condition, and perspective to understand Jesus’ human experience.  Learn more in Fr. Joe’s book, Considering Jesus: The Human Experience of the Redeemer.

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In The Examen Book, Paul Mitchell invites adults and children to enter into the Examen prayer together as a family.

By dotMagis Editor

This life is so brief, and we are all broken, a little lost, and deeply flawed. But there is a loving God who offers us salvation, joy, and the strength of spirit to endure all that life throws at us. All we need to do is ask. Ask the Lord for what you need. None […]

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In The Examen Book, Paul Mitchell invites adults and children to enter into the Examen prayer together as a family.

By Lisa Kelly

I was listening to an audio Spanish lesson when I had a spiritual revelation. The instructor was encouraging students to believe in their ability to speak a foreign language. He noted that people often give up because immersion requires them to go way beyond their comfort zones. The insight he offered, though, was that the […]

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In The Freedom of Missing Out, Michael Rossmann, SJ, presents a practical plan for developing emotional courage, increasing focus, and learning to say no to what depletes us and yes to what gives meaning, vitality, and joy.

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

I feel it in the air. Mornings are crisp. I notice the days are a few minutes shorter, and even just a few minutes’ difference marks a change in my inner cadence. I see the trees with that sense the end is near. They change prematurely as if they are thrilled to wear their fall […]

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In The Freedom of Missing Out, Michael Rossmann, SJ, presents a practical plan for developing emotional courage, increasing focus, and learning to say no to what depletes us and yes to what gives meaning, vitality, and joy.

By Theresa Brotherton

My two-year-old grandson was promoted to big brother recently, and I have been spending precious time at my daughter and son-in-law’s house to help with the everyday tasks a newborn seems to make impossible and to figure out creative ways to keep a curious two-year-old’s mind busy while everyone is adjusting to a newborn in […]

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Leading with heart, authenticity, and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line—including 55 rules to break—bringing The Homeboy Way to life as the perfect anecdote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.

By Loretta Pehanich

I’ve passed that icon hundreds of times as I enter the church, but this day I saw something I’d never noticed before. It was Christ’s hands. One hand was placed on his chest in the same way I put a hand on my heart when I feel something deeply. The image hinted that Jesus feels […]

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Leading with heart, authenticity, and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line—including 55 rules to break—bringing The Homeboy Way to life as the perfect anecdote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.

By Marina Berzins McCoy

This summer on retreat I spent much time praying while sitting on large rocks off the northeast Atlantic Ocean. The wildlife is abundant there, with a wide variety of sea fowl, rabbits, deer, and many beautiful flowers and trees. I enjoy watching the cormorants and seagulls glide and was lucky enough to have a long, […]

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Leading with heart, authenticity, and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line—including 55 rules to break—bringing The Homeboy Way to life as the perfect anecdote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.

By dotMagis Editor

Enjoy this video overview of the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises. The week is about being called forth in love and choosing Christ. Two of the books referenced in the video are available from Loyola Press: What’s Your Decision? by J. Michael Sparough, SJ, Jim Manney, and Tim Hipskind, SJ Inner Compass by Margaret […]

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Leading with heart, authenticity, and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line—including 55 rules to break—bringing The Homeboy Way to life as the perfect anecdote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.