Ignatian Voices
A Wider Circle of Friends
As friends of God, we are invited to become friends with all of God’s friends. God invites us to widen our circle of friends to include God’s friends wherever...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Christ Plays in 10,000 Places eBook
Celebrate the Ignatian Year with a free eBook of seasonally inspired prayers, poems, reflections, and illustrations. Contributors include Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, Vinita Hampton Wright, Eric Clayton, and 23 more...
Ignatian Prayer
Prayer of Desire to Sense Christ’s Presence
We commemorate the August 2 feast day of St. Peter Faber with Faber Fridays this month, inspired by Jon M. Sweeney’s book, Peter Faber: A Saint for Turbulent Times.
Today,...
Education
Education, Happiness, and Problem Solving
Should education teach people how to deal with problems or how to try to be happy?
My basic premise is that happiness is what human life means at its deepest...
Ignatian Voices
Cannonball Moment at a Funeral
Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ, at Creighton University, introduces his cannonball moment with the words, “A sad experience made me the happiest guy in the whole world.” The funeral of his...
Ignatian Voices
A Transformative T-Shirt Slogan
Theresa Wang, a campus minister from Taiwan, was thinking about leaving her school when a t-shirt slogan caught her attention. Shortly after, she went on a retreat where she...