Ignatian Spirituality

Apple Picking and Discernment

1 day 4 hours ago

By Marina Berzins McCoy

Each year my family and I enjoy going apple picking together here in New England. Yes, I know that I could just as easily buy these apples at the local orchard, and no, I don’t always know what to do with all the apples that we bring home once I’ve made apple crisp, my husband […]

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Praying with Our Feet by Dr. Ansel Augustine shows how faith and social teaching, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, can be lived out in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.

Marina Berzins McCoy

Fr. Tetlow’s Hope for Spiritual Direction

3 days 4 hours ago

By dotMagis Editor

In response to the Jubilee Year’s call to be pilgrims of hope, the Office of Ignatian Spirituality is asking spiritual directors, ā€œWhat is your hope for spiritual direction?ā€ Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, hopes people in spiritual direction ā€œwill discover their own call from God.ā€ He says, ā€œWhat I should feel first of all is joy. […]

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Praying with Our Feet by Dr. Ansel Augustine shows how faith and social teaching, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, can be lived out in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.

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In Search of Stillness

5 days 4 hours ago

By Gerri Leder

Editor’s note: Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 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 beginning today. The Presence of God ā€œā€˜Be still, and know that I […]

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Praying with Our Feet by Dr. Ansel Augustine shows how faith and social teaching, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, can be lived out in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.

Gerri Leder

The Man Who Untangles Seagulls

1 week 1 day ago

By Eric Clayton

I sit with a Jesuit friend on a pier near a fishing village overlooking the Irish Sea. The village, Howth, is a 30-minute or so drive northeast of Dublin. It’s a lovely night: cool and breezy, with the smell of salt and seaweed wafting over the ocean wall. It’s busy too. Along the pier are […]

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Praying with Our Feet by Dr. Ansel Augustine shows how faith and social teaching, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, can be lived out in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.

Eric Clayton

Something Good

1 week 3 days ago

By dotMagis Editor

I once worked with a teacher who started every class by inviting each pupil to say something good. Students were challenged to tell a story or name a miracle. This practice formed the students: They got in the habit of noticing what was good in their lives. Before long, they could notice and name how […]

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Sneezing and Being Beautifully Human

1 week 5 days ago

By Gretchen Crowder

Ah…ah…achoo! ā€œOh, no, oh, no, oh, no!ā€ I thought frantically. ā€œI cannot be sick, Lord. Not now!ā€ To be fair, it was only one tiny little sneeze. I knew I should not be jumping to conclusions, but jump to conclusions I did. ā€œGod, I have a big week coming up. There is no way I […]

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Gretchen Crowder

Resisting Grace

2 weeks 1 day ago

By Vinita Hampton Wright

Here’s a helpful question to ask from time to time: Am I resisting God’s grace? Now, why would anyone do that? Resist the grace received through Jesus? Consider the following. We don’t think we deserve it. Especially for those of us who live in cultures that are highly individualistic, we are conditioned to believe that […]

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Vinita Hampton Wright

Fragility and Gratefulness

2 weeks 3 days ago

By dotMagis Editor

After a leg injury while walking the Ignatian Camino, Brendan McManus, SJ, struggled to be grateful and find God in the experience. He writes: Ignatius managed to turn his leg injury and convalescence into a new way of relating to God. His frustrating immobility became the moment where he realised that God was speaking to […]

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Four Ways to Fight Perfectionism in the Spiritual Life

2 weeks 5 days ago

By Rebecca Ruiz

Hearing the familiar crackle of my knees as I crouched down to scrub my shower, I recalled the days when I used to be able to clean my whole house from top to bottom in a day. Though weary, I would stand at the end of the day relishing the dust-free shine and scent of […]

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Rebecca Ruiz

God’s Steadfast Love

3 weeks 1 day ago

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

Many years ago, I was asked to read the Psalm at a friend’s wedding. Actually, two of us friends shared in reading Psalm 136. The other friend, a gentleman, read the first lines, and I read the alternate lines. All the initial lines of this Psalm are about the great feats of God: how he […]

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Praying with Our Feet by Dr. Ansel Augustine shows how faith and social teaching, rooted in Ignatian spirituality, can be lived out in solidarity with all our brothers and sisters.

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Dealing with Loneliness the Ignatian Way

3 weeks 3 days ago

By Tim Muldoon

Human beings are built for connection, and so we experience loneliness in ways that are similar to our experiences of hunger or thirst: a lack, a privation, a pain that calls for attention. The growing field of neuroscience, for example, has expanded our understanding of a basic truth already evident in the book of Genesis: […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

Tim Muldoon

Spiritual Side Effects

3 weeks 5 days ago

By Melinda LeBlanc

We all know that medicine has side effects. Sometimes the side effects seem worse than what we take the medicine for! But still, we take our medicine diligently, confident that at some point we will get relief from our ailments. It was one day when I was taking my morning buffet of pills that I […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

Melinda LeBlanc

Lord, Come Into My House

4 weeks 1 day ago

By dotMagis Editor

Lord, many people have spoken to me about you. I want to know you. I have many things in my life preventing me from seeing you, and many things not in keeping with your teachings separating me from you. They are obstacles on my way to you. I have chosen a lukewarm faith: a Christianity […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

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Jesus’ To-Do List

1 month ago

By Marina Berzins McCoy

On my phone, I keep reminder lists. I use them to keep track of nearly everything in my life, such as tasks for my job as a professor, food needed from the grocery store, and yard and interior tasks that we need to do for our home. My many lists allow me to work more […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

Marina Berzins McCoy

Leaving Things Incomplete

1 month ago

By Loretta Pehanich

I got an invitation to a party today, but it didn’t state a date or time for arrival. It also said, ā€œThe gift of your presence is gift enough.ā€ That’s always a pressure reliever when invited to someone’s special event. I tossed the invitation aside as I rushed through my long to-do list, and soon […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

Loretta Pehanich

Prayer of an Aging Disciple

1 month ago

By dotMagis Editor

Lord, grant me the grace to live in the present and recognize what is possible to look to the future and trust you to be silent, and hear your voice in the stillness to do what you ask without arguing to humbly adapt to radical change to serve, and to graciously accept being served to […]

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In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces the Examen as the prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed.

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My Silly Hat

1 month 1 week ago

By Eric Clayton

I own a peculiar baseball cap that I wear all the time. It’s a black hat, simple in appearance, save for the goofy-looking pinkish blob prominently featured above the rim. The blob is smiling, tongue out, with its big googly eyes wide and staring and happy. The blob has a name; it’s Morph. And Morph […]

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In God’s Voice Within, Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to use Ignatian discernment to understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us.

Eric Clayton

Consenting to God Meeting Us

1 month 1 week ago

By dotMagis Editor

We could all use some tips when it comes to prayer, especially during these challenging times. In this episode of Pop-Up Prayer, Elsy ArĆ©valo, Instructor and Assistant Director of the Center for Religion and Spirituality at Loyola Marymount University, explains that prayer is not about us reaching out to God as if we have to […]

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In God’s Voice Within, Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to use Ignatian discernment to understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us.

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Printer Frustration

1 month 1 week ago

By Gretchen Crowder

I don’t remember much about the movie Office Space except the iconic scene in which three employees take out their frustrations on the office printer. Fed up with the repeated error message ā€œPC LOAD LETTERā€ among other office things, the colleagues take the printer for a ride and destroy it with bats in a field. […]

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In God’s Voice Within, Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to use Ignatian discernment to understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us.

Gretchen Crowder

Kindness Eggs

1 month 2 weeks ago

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

My 16-year-old son and I stood shielding our eyes from the sun on an unusually hot afternoon at a four-track train station in Kent, England. We were looking for my friend, a vicar in the Church of England, who was to pick us up from the station. The vicar was hosting us at his vicarage […]

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

Shemaiah Gonzalez
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