By dotMagis Editor

Paul had an extraordinarily active life. It’s exhausting just to read about his missionary journeys: the many times he was shipwrecked, persecuted, imprisoned, and beaten. Finally, he was accused of various crimes by the Jewish authorities and exercised his right as a Roman citizen to appeal his case to Caesar (Acts 25:11). When he got […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Loretta Pehanich

Each day, God gives me enough time. It sure doesn’t feel like it. Today I did not have time to play my guitar or piano or read a novel, nor did I quilt, exercise, write an overdue thank-you note, or nap. I really wish I had more time. And I remember the Israelites wanting more […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Marina Berzins McCoy

St. Ignatius wrote many letters, and on occasion I read from a collection of them to learn more about his approach to applying spirituality in a practical way to life. I recently read one in which he had been asked by a wealthy couple to help them decide what to do with their property after […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Shemaiah Gonzalez

I have heard that God always answers prayer. Sometimes the answer is “Yes.” Sometimes it is “No.” And sometimes it is “Wait.” There was a time when God’s answer to my prayer was “Wait.” I didn’t really listen, though. I figured I could make it all happen on my own. I went out and made […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By dotMagis Editor

While most of us do not have experiences quite as dramatic as St. Ignatius’s cannonball moment, we still have our stories of experiences that served as catalysts leading to change in our lives. In recognizing our own cannonball moments, we see more fully the breadth and depth of our personal story and the values that […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Gretchen Crowder

I despise gardening! It’s not gardening’s fault, really. It’s mine. I do occasionally try to garden, but every time, it fails miserably. Usually my foray into gardening begins with the sudden desire to have beautiful flowers adorn my front door. I hurry to the nearest nursery and load up on a few potted plants—the bigger […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Lisa Kelly

With all our technology we truly have the capacity to live our lives in almost constant contact with others virtually anywhere. So really, I don’t ever have to say goodbye. We can live on via e-mail forever. I wonder what St. Ignatius would say about trying to do so. I think he would say that […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By dotMagis Editor

The Ignatian Solidarity Network announces an eco poetry retreat. Meg Liebsch, from the Office of Justice and Ecology of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, will be leading the online event May 2–5, 2022. Connect with others to reflect on themes from Laudato Si’ through the lens of eco poetry. Each day […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By dotMagis Editor

The Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew in Brooklyn, NY, brings us this 15-minute guided Ignatian reflection on John 21:1–14. We are invited to place ourselves in the story in which Jesus appears to seven disciples at the Sea of Tiberias after his Resurrection. For another imaginative take on that same Gospel story, enjoy […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Marina Berzins McCoy

When my children were younger, we used to go to the Easter Vigil Mass. As a result, Easter morning was at home. The Easter Bunny visited the night before and left not only an Easter basket with candy and small toys, but also eggs hidden around the house. As the Bunny had done for me, […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By dotMagis Editor

Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, is releasing a video each month during this Ignatian Year. The videos serve as companions to his book, Walking with Ignatius. In the video accompanying chapter four, Sosa says, “In this Ignatian Year we wish that the Lord may grant us the gift of […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I don’t like cats. We never had a cat growing up. We were all allergic. If I spent more than five minutes in a room with a cat—or even in a room in a house with a cat, even if the cat were […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Loretta Pehanich

Similar to St. Ignatius’s contemplation involving an encounter between Mary and her Son after his Resurrection, this meditation is not based on Scripture. However, Luke 1:5–56 inspired this story. I love my time in the garden. It consoles me to work in the soil, even if it’s just pulling weeds. Today I needed consolation. News […]

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Filled with wisdom and reflections from favorite Ignatian leaders, An Ignatian Book of Days sees God as actively involved in the world and intimately connected with us in every moment and place.

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By Julianne Stanz

At the heart of the Irish expression, céad míle fáilte, meaning “a hundred thousand welcomes,” is the understanding that each person that we meet is someone that we should receive with great care, dignity, and honor, because we would also like to receive that same care, dignity, and honor. One of the people in my […]

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In God Finds Us, Jim Manney shares his experiences of making the Spiritual Exercises in a down-to-earth, accessible narrative.

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By Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I never seemed to have enough bug spray in Bolivia. Not that it really mattered—the mosquitos were supercharged. They’d bite clear through my jeans, and I’d have these welts up and down my legs. Mosquitos aren’t known for playing fairly. This is what […]

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In God Finds Us, Jim Manney shares his experiences of making the Spiritual Exercises in a down-to-earth, accessible narrative.

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By Gretchen Crowder

Every time I have needed Christ, I have found him waiting patiently for me in a school chapel. The first school chapel I visited regularly to seek Christ’s presence was my dorm chapel at Notre Dame. I went there often when no one was there to have a little one-on-one time with Christ. That would […]

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In God Finds Us, Jim Manney shares his experiences of making the Spiritual Exercises in a down-to-earth, accessible narrative.

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By Julianne Stanz

As Lent gives way to Holy Week, we approach this most sacred time of year with a sense of anticipation, awe, and wonder. Sometimes we enter weary and tired but still cling to the hope of renewal that connects us to every generation that has reverenced and honored the magnitude of these sacred days. This […]

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In Always Discerning, Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, shares how we can implement discernment into not only life’s big decisions but also into the everyday, more mundane choices we constantly have to make.

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By Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Six of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. We’ve become all too familiar with images of war, violence, and destruction. We see cities turned to rubble and deadly weaponry clenched in resolute hands. We see, too, in graphic detail what sorrow and pain look like; we see it etched into faces, […]

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In Always Discerning, Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, shares how we can implement discernment into not only life’s big decisions but also into the everyday, more mundane choices we constantly have to make.

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By Rebecca Ruiz

When I was a child, I thought of Lent as a gloomy time. This was partly because where I grew up, the weather at that time of year was dark and dreary. Nearly every day, the clouds would hang low to the ground, emitting a misty drizzle that would coat my eyelashes. More than once, […]

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For all who sense that there is a missing peace in their lives, Busy Lives & Restless Souls by Becky Eldredge will help them find it—right where they are.

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By Julianne Stanz

Thin spaces exist not just outside us but also within us. Our souls are the places that hold our light. A soul friendship is the place in which the light inside you meets the light inside the other person. Watch this brief video introducing the concept of soul friends, which we discuss fully in chapter […]

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For all who sense that there is a missing peace in their lives, Busy Lives & Restless Souls by Becky Eldredge will help them find it—right where they are.

Click through to read the full article Lenten Read-Along: Thin Places and Soul Friends, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.