Choosing love is sometimes easy. Other times, we must labor to choose to love. Greg Okumu, SJ reflects that the invitation on this last Sunday of Advent is to choose to love—because God does. Based on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
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I have a chronic illness. It is a scary path that I wouldn’t choose for anyone. People often comment about what a busy and outgoing person I used to be, and although I am not so busy in the world anymore, I am still me. From a world view, I guess it seems as if […]
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In Ignatian Spirituality A to Z, Jim Manney provides a brief, informative, and entertaining guide to key concepts of Ignatian spirituality and essential characters and events in Jesuit history.
It’s Advent, and the season is full of expectation and hope. I love the regular appearances of light on the streets in the darkness. Light is consoling, and there are many other moments where we find “light”: celebrations with family, visits with friends, and happy moments of choosing a card or a gift for a […]
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In Ignatian Spirituality A to Z, Jim Manney provides a brief, informative, and entertaining guide to key concepts of Ignatian spirituality and essential characters and events in Jesuit history.
What does it mean to embrace radical hope in God during Advent? Brennan Dour, SJ, reflects on the Advent meditations of Fr. Alfred Delp, SJ, who discovered this season’s profound spiritual invitation to trust in God while awaiting execution in a Nazi prison cell.
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I found it: a small plaque on a stone edifice alerts passersby that this was the house of Isabel Roser. Some 500 years after she lived there the stone structure still stands across the plaza from Santa Maria del Mar Church in Barcelona, where Ignatius of Loyola prayed, preached, and begged for support. I wanted […]
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In Small Simple Ways: An Ignatian Daybook for Healthy Spiritual Living, author, editor, and retreat leader Vinita Hampton Wright offers her trademark compassion and encouragement to lift readers up and help propel them forward.
On the Third Sunday of Advent, Catholics celebrate Gaudete—or “rejoice”—Sunday. Even though Jesus is not born yet, Kevin Lee, SJ reflects how this Sunday invites us to see the ways that God is already breaking into the world. Based on the readings for the Third Sunday of Advent.
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