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By Lisa Kelly

I don’t have an answer to the question of why there is so much evil and pain in this world. All I can do is encourage you to speak directly to God if you have questions about God’s ways, as one friend to another, even if anger is the only emotion you can voice. The […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Rebecca Ruiz

God is always working in our lives, but sometimes we are so wrapped up in the details of life that we need a friend to notice God’s work for us. Spiritual friends are the ones who notice for us. We turn to them when we want to talk about our faith journey, relationship with God, […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Marina Berzins McCoy

A few weeks ago, my husband and I went for a walk with our dog at the peak weekend in our area for bird migration. We found a spot in a park known for bird migration and opened my birding phone app to listen for what birds might be in the area. To our delight, […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

Jesus shepherds us and calls us to shepherd others. Simon Zachary, SJ reflects on Jesus’s empathy for others. Based on the readings for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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By dotMagis Editor

July is almost here, so that means we’re getting ready for the 17th-annual 31 Days with St. Ignatius. This original month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality leads up to the feast day of its namesake on July 31. We’ve put together a calendar of Ignatian articles and more for you to be inspired daily by St. […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Eric Clayton

I stare at the little green shoots on our small and struggling tree and will them to grow faster. Come on, I think. The deer can still reach you there. You have to get taller, bigger, wider, anything. But, of course, that’s not how trees work. That’s not how plants grow. And that’s not how […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Lisa Kelly

Ever have a gut-wrenching day? Not just a hard day, but a day when you felt like there was nothing left inside of you but ache? Maybe it was the day your teenager screamed at you for the umpteenth time and slammed the door in your face. Maybe it was the day you had to […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

Ghosting and rejection are more ubiquitous than ever in our online landscape. Jon Jue-Wong, SJ reflects on how through the Eucharist, God enters and remains in our lives always. Based on the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi).

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By Gretchen Crowder

The first time I ran a meeting as a leader of adults, I made a colossal mistake. It took me years, however, to understand the mistake and its implications for building my team. I remember being so nervous preparing for that first meeting. Though I had confidence in the ministerial abilities that had led me […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

As he concludes his regency mission at Loyola High School of Detroit, Eddie Wesonga, SJ, reflects on his ministry as a sports chaplain and the ways it invited him into authentic encounter and a deeper relationship with his students.

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By Shemaiah Gonzalez

Life has been busy. Maybe it is the season of life. My teen sons cannot yet drive but still have violin lessons and jujitsu classes they need to be driven to. And my husband and I have so much work, it is rare we are both home the same evening. In these moments of busy-ness, […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Kathleen Butler

A few years ago, I visited the town in Ireland where my father’s ancestors lived. The cathedral there was built in the 1950s, so it’s unlikely that any of my relatives were part of its construction. Yet, when I went in, I felt immediately rooted. It was as if I could somehow feel a bunch […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

You're worth saving because God loves you. Chris Kinkor, SJ reflects on how God’s love makes us worthy of salvation, and not the status symbols of the world. Based on the readings for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time.

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By dotMagis Editor

As a preface to his declaration about the Incarnation in Philippians, St. Paul said, “The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had.” Wisdom is making peace with the unchangeable. We have the freedom to face the unavoidable with dignity, to understand the transformational value that attitude works on suffering. Viktor Frankl […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By dotMagis Editor

I am a djembefola (one who plays djembe drums). I learned to play these drums (also known as talking drums) at the age of ten. An older man who lived in my neighborhood in the South Bronx had studied African drumming, and he was kind enough to hand down all that he knew about this […]

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A Friendship Like No Other by William A. Barry, SJ, offers a fresh approach to becoming a friend of God.

By Jim Manney

Recently I read a column in a Catholic publication that was about an important and controversial topic. Yet it was so full of invective and nasty ad hominem attacks that I had to stop reading it. The readers’ comments online were even worse. The depth of their rage and bitterness overwhelmed me. There was no […]

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Explore best practices from a 450-year-old company that changed the world in Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney.

On Pentecost, Jesus offers the Holy Spirit to each of us in an individual way so that we can each build up the body of the church. Brennan Dour, SJ asks: Where has the Holy Spirit been tugging on your heart? Based on the readings for Pentecost Sunday.

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By Lisa Kelly

“Why, God? Why?” I sit at the funeral of a friend who died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Alive one day, gone the next. “Why, God? Why?” Tornadoes flatten neighborhoods in the time a speeding train passes through a station. Lives turn to rubble. “Why, God? Why?” Another day begins for an exhausted parent living […]

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Explore best practices from a 450-year-old company that changed the world in Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney.

What is life like for a Jesuit during First Studies? Chris Kinkor, SJ, offers an inside view of life for a Jesuit scholastic at Bellarmine House of Studies at Saint Louis University and reflects on the ways God has been at work in this period of his formation.

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By Becky Eldredge

I maintain that God—out of the abundance of divine relational life, not any need for us—desires humans into existence for the sake of friendship. This thesis may sound strange, because it runs counter to much teaching about God. To be honest, I questioned it myself when I first began to think it through… But over […]

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Approach the Examen in fresh ways with Reimagining the Ignatian Examen by Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ.