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By Marina Berzins McCoy

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 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.

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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By Loretta Pehanich

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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By Barbara Lee

Two of the most common challenges in the spiritual life are trust and patience. We say that we trust, but we give in to anxiety. We pray to discern the right course of action, but we want answers now. How do we break those habits? It has sometimes been said that the opposite of faith […]

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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.

By Eric Clayton

I manage to roll out of bed just a tad earlier than normal. I stumble down the stairs, collapse into a great, leathery chair, and pull out my pile of spiritual reading. I close my eyes, take in a deep breath, bless myself, and… I hear the scampering feet of my two little girls as […]

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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.

By Melinda LeBlanc

I’ve been enjoying watching the family of bluebirds in my yard. I watched the parents’ courtship, the nest building, the egg laying, and the hatching and fledging. I was fascinated with how the parents brought food back to the nest, where they were met by open-mouthed baby birds fully prepared to accept what was given […]

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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.

In the season of Advent, we prepare for God to come into our world. Will Hayes, SJ reflects how God coming into a world as the child Jesus means we have a God who wants to come into our arms and into our lives. Bases on the readings for the Second Sunday of Advent.

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By Gretchen Crowder

What is the best gift you have ever received? This question is a favorite icebreaker question, and I am always stumped when I try to answer it. As most icebreakers involve quick thinking, I usually give a superficial answer that, upon further reflection, is not actually a true one. The things that always come to […]

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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.

By Becky Eldredge

One of my grandmother’s favorite expressions was, “One of the things you can always count on in life is change.” There were many times as a teen or young adult when I did not appreciate her words, especially if they came right after I shared my struggle with change. After listening to my moaning and […]

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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.

By Jean Heaton

When I was young, each autumn I waited anxiously for the Sears Christmas catalog to arrive in the mailbox. Three to six hundred glossy pages, the famous Wish Book held almost everything a child could dream of. My friends and I would sprawl on the floor, pencils in hand, circling and starring items that seemed […]

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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.

Time is at a premium for many in December. Ty Wahlbrink, SJ extends an invitation to practice patient awaiting this Advent to look for the ways God is breaking into the world. Based on the readings for the First Sunday of Advent.

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By Vivian Amu

Advent is a sacred season of preparing space for Christ to come into our lives. Yet in life’s busyness, sometimes I find it difficult to embrace fully the spiritual depth of Advent. Ignatian spirituality offers a contemplative and transformative way to deepen our experience of Advent. The first week of Advent begins with a message […]

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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.

By Rebecca Ruiz

When my first son was born, I lost my breath. I looked at this exquisite, tiny person looking up at me and couldn’t breathe or speak. Time seemed to stand still. There were no words, none that I knew anyway, that could express the depth of the feelings I had in that moment. Gratitude and […]

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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.

By Joseph Durepos

We are all living the unlived lives of our parents and our culture. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy writes, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Now we speak of dysfunctional families. We’re wounded by our beginnings, even if we just had a “good-enough father” when we wanted a […]

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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.

As the church approaches the end of its liturgical year, Jose Oros, SJ reflects how each is called to examine their priorities. Christ is King of the whole universe—but also our hearts and lives. Based on the readings for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

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By Shemaiah Gonzalez

Each year, as Advent approaches, I think to myself how familiar and comfortable this all feels: the lighting of our Advent wreath, the readings from Scripture, and saints our family shares as we count down the days and make our home cozy for Christmas. And yet, each year I think to myself, I want to […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

The Ignatian Volunteer Corps is hosting an Advent Morning of Reflection with Fr. Andy Alexander, SJ, on December 6, 2025. Register here for the online event. Fr. Andy co-founded Creighton University’s Online Ministries and is the co-author of Praying Lent: Renewing Our Lives on the Lenten Journey. If that event doesn’t meet your schedule, enjoy […]

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Fill each day with a touch of grace through 2026: A Book of Grace-Filled Days by Julia Walsh.

By Tim Muldoon

Editor’s note: Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2026 suggests six steps of prayer and contemplation for exploring the daily Scripture passages: The Presence of God, Freedom, Consciousness, The Word, Conversation, and Conclusion. We’ve invited our Ignatian bloggers to explore each step in a series concluding today. Conclusion “I thank God for these moments we have […]

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Fill each day with a touch of grace through 2026: A Book of Grace-Filled Days by Julia Walsh.

Sometimes our world feels like it is crashing down. In times like these, Greg Okumu, SJ reflects this is when Jesus can be closest to us. Based on the readings for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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