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By Loretta Pehanich

My husband and I sat mesmerized by waves at Alki Beach. Our camp chairs were comfy as we watched children play, lovers stroll, and runners pass. My eyes were drawn to a woman lugging a fully loaded ice chest down to a picnic table. After struggling to get it situated, she disappeared briefly, only to […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

The externals certainly help, but when you want to know what really makes a Jesuit house feel like a home, you have to dig deeper to discover what we really hold in common.

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By Marina Berzins McCoy

Many of us find it helpful to talk through an idea with another person when we are trying to make a decision or process the meaning of something significant that has happened. For example, when I was younger and applying to graduate schools, I decided to shift in my career plans from psychology to philosophy. […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

By Tim Muldoon

It is good to remember that spirituality is a series of practices that allow us to pay attention to God. God’s always there, but we get easily distracted. And the more we get distracted, the easier it is to get distracted. Distraction itself has become our practice. The answer, of course, is the opposite practice […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Drawing on Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te, Nate Cortas, SJ reflects that welcoming migrants is not a political preference but a Gospel demand. In the stranger at our door, he insists, Christians encounter the living presence of Jesus Himself.

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By Theresa Brotherton

My husband asked me why I was being nice instead of sharing the snarky comment the expression on my face expressed. Looking at him, I announced that I was trying to “will the good” of others in my life, and I had thought it would be a simple thing to do. “It’s hard,” I reluctantly […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Clothes tangled in thorny brush and rosaries left behind in the sand testify that migrants crossing the desert are more than statistics. In searching for them, Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ reflects on how the Parable of the Lost Sheep calls Christians to unconditional love—especially when it seems impossible or even absurd.

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By Lisa Kelly

My 84-year-old father, a former Air Force fighter pilot who traveled around the world, now spends his days mainly confined to his recliner. His liberty to get up and walk to the refrigerator, let alone travel or even run an errand, is gone. He has lived in the same room for three years now, yet […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

By dotMagis Editor

One of the most important characteristics of Ignatian prayer is the use of imagination. Ignatius recommends practices of meditation, consideration, and contemplation as ways for humans to open themselves to the work of God’s Spirit, who prays within the bodied spirit of the human person. Each of these practices requires the person of prayer to […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

By Gerri Leder

Any given day, our activities might be driven by one big to-do list: pick up and drop off; get where we need to be; see who we arranged to see; work on projects; prepare and clean up; contact the people in our lives. We put one foot in front of the other most days without […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Being in the image of God implies that humans have certain capacities for the transcendent, which confers them their rights. Because animals have certain capacities for love and self-mastery, Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ reflects that they too deserve to be treated with dignity.

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By Jim Manney

Everywhere these days, we’re told that the best policy is “no surprises.” Our world is obsessed with control, planning, and risk management. Parents of small children, coaches, managers, therapists, spouses, and friends are advised to be steady and predictable, to avoid sudden changes, to be transparent, and to explain expectations clearly. Much counsel in spiritual […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

By dotMagis Editor

Fr. Venâncio Da Costa Pereira, SJ, works in retreat ministry in Timor-Leste. He addresses serving people in a predominantly Catholic country and explains how the Ignatian Spirituality Center tries to promote two things in particular: spiritual conversation and discernment.

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

As a new year dawns, Nate Cortas, SJ invites us to reflect on choosing faithful hope over shallow optimism.

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By dotMagis Editor

Writer Alli Bobzien uses a yearly Examen as a way to gain perspective and practice prudence. She notes in “Everyday Ignatian: Practicing Prudence in the Examen”: When we are in the midst of daily life, it’s easy to miss the signposts pointing us to that which helps and away from that which hinders. Our family […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Bored on a Saturday night, Raj Vijayakumar, SJ reluctantly clicked play on a Marvel film—and stumbled into an unexpected theological meditation. Fantastic Four: First Steps, he reflects, raises enduring Christian questions about sacrifice, family, and ethics.

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By dotMagis Editor

Let’s approach the new year with some encouragement to organization. Do you ever feel like this? There’s so much to do that I don’t know where to start. I think of everything I’m responsible for and everything I’d like to accomplish, and I panic—and sometimes I cope by doing nothing at all. Time to make […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Families are our first school of love. Ty Wahlbrink, SJ reflects that God could have chosen any way to enter the world—but God chose to have a family. Based on the readings for the Feast of the Holy Family.

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By dotMagis Editor

Writer Catherine Anne Sullivan presented a webinar on Ignatian journaling through Ignatian Young Adult Ministries. The advice is helpful for beginning journal writers of all ages, however. Sullivan suggests two centering questions to address in writing: What is one good thing I can thank God for today? What is one hard thing I can invite […]

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By discerning our deepest desires, we discover our truest selves. Read Tim Muldoon’s Living Against the Grain.

Every December 25th reminds us of a crucial eternal truth: God is always with us. No matter the circumstances we might find ourselves in, the humble nativity reminds us that Jesus is always there. Based on the readings for the Nativity of the Lord.

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