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Ponder Fabian Debora’s art paired with quotes from Forgive Everyone Everything by Gregory Boyle, SJ. Participating in our Lenten read-along of Forgive Everyone Everything? Share your thoughts about this week’s reading in the comments below. And post your thoughts, favorite quotes, or reactions with #lentreadalong on social media.

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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.

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, considers what the Call of Christ, Our King, and the Meditation on Two Standards mean for us today. Fr. Tetlow’s books include Considering Jesus, Always Discerning, and You Have Called Me by My Name.

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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.

By Gretchen Crowder

Have you ever wondered if your friendship with Jesus is a healthy one? I’m not sure if I ever considered this particular question before. Of course, I’ve considered many times what it means to believe Jesus is my friend. In fact, in Ignatian spirituality, the conversation of Jesus as a friend comes up a fair […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

“Perhaps we should all marinate in the intimacy of God.” This line comes from “Fullness” in Gregory Boyle’s Forgive Everyone Everything. Enjoy the full excerpt in the video below. Participating in our Lenten read-along of Forgive Everyone Everything? Share your thoughts about this week’s reading in the comments below. And post your thoughts, favorite quotes, or reactions […]

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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.

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, makes these key points in talking about prayer and the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises. The Second Week invites us to grow into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We pray with contemplation and consideration and develop a […]

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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.

By Eric Clayton

A minor religious conflict broke out during our bedtime reading not so long ago. It was unexpected—and pretty hilarious. Once upon a time, my eldest daughter, Elianna, received from her grandparents a book entitled God Loves You, Elianna. She was about a year old, but even then, hearing her name read aloud in a story […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

“The hard part is embracing our inner nobility, beauty, and goodness.” This line comes from “Nobility” in Gregory Boyle’s Forgive Everyone Everything. Enjoy the full excerpt in the video below. Participating in our Lenten read-along of Forgive Everyone Everything? Share your thoughts about this week’s reading in the comments below. And post your thoughts, favorite quotes, or […]

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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.

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

This post is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, makes these key points in talking about sin and the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises. Christ has come to show us how much God loves us. That’s the big lesson of the First Week. Sin will keep human […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

This month, Pope Francis will celebrate 65 years as a Jesuit and 10 years as our Pope. In honor of these milestones, Loyola Press—the sponsor of IgnatianSpirituality.com—invites you to take a fun, 10-question quiz: How Well Do You Know Pope Francis? In addition to the quiz, explore other resources to celebrate the anniversary, including prayer […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

In Forgive Everyone Everything, Gregory Boyle, SJ, shares stories based on his experiences at Homeboy Industries. Learn more about the organization from its CEO, Thomas Vozzo, in a webinar recorded last summer. Start reading Vozzo’s The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life. Fill out the form on HomeboyAuthors.com to receive the first […]

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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.

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

This post is based on Week Two of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In speaking about the Examen as a prayer we keep making, Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, explains that the Examen is way of keeping focus in our spiritual lives, or “making progress,” in Ignatian terms. He explains that it’s crucial to begin with thanks […]

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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

How do we respond to suffering? How did Jesus? And what can we learn from the Passion for helping us in our day-to-day struggles? Join award-winning author Gary Jansen for a special Lenten webinar that will draw from his book Station to Station and offer an Ignatian way of looking at the Stations of the […]

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

By Marina Berzins McCoy

I have long admired Gregory Boyle, SJ, whose books I regularly teach in my classes in the Boston College PULSE service learning program. I have had the opportunity to meet him a couple of times when he was on the lecture circuit, and he is the “real deal.” I’d call Boyle a living saint, except […]

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

By Joseph Tetlow, SJ

This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, responds to the question, “What are the typical graces people can expect as they pray with the Principle and Foundation?” The Principle and Foundation is the first key meditation of the Spiritual Exercises. Fr. Tetlow’s books include Considering Jesus, […]

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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.

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Ignatius invites us to focus continually on the person of Jesus and to follow his way; he is the one who becomes fully human, who lives, walks, and talks with companions, prays, feels love and friendship, becomes angry, cries, puzzles over choices, and, like each of us, is affected by other people’s choices. Good and […]

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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.

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

I was 3 ½ years old when my father taught me my first Bible verse—in the King James version. Maybe he liked the sound of Elizabethan English coming out of the mouth of babes. It is the version that has stuck with me: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of […]

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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.

By dotMagis Editor

Earlier this month we suggested An Ignatian Prayer Adventure as one way to observe Lent. Start your retreat this Sunday (Feb. 19) to follow the experience through Lent and Easter. Here are a few other ideas, all inspired by the Examen. From Ashes to Glory is a seasonal journey with the Examen, using material by […]

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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.

By Tim Muldoon

A friend shared with me a fascinating video about a photographer who went out onto the streets of New York City to ask complete strangers to pose with one another as if they were intimate friends or family. What is fascinating about it is that those who participated—even in spite of initial awkwardness—reported feeling that […]

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Fr. Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, invites readers to pray with Jesus not as an idea but as a human person in Considering Jesus.

By dotMagis Editor

In the Exercises, Ignatius describes a mode of discernment for making bigger decisions, traditionally called the election (SE 169–89). Making an election relies on the person having developed a practice of discernment in ordinary matters…Ignatius mentions as proper subjects for an election the choice of getting married or entering religious life. Over time, the Exercises […]

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Fr. Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, invites readers to pray with Jesus not as an idea but as a human person in Considering Jesus.

By Eric Clayton

Our girls were in bed, the dishes were clean, and I had just poured myself a glass of wine. There were at least two TV shows that I was looking forward to catching up on—maybe even three. But it was eight o’clock; the day was nearly done. I’d have to temper my expectations. “What should […]

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Fr. Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, invites readers to pray with Jesus not as an idea but as a human person in Considering Jesus.