Discernment
What Is Our Part in the Divine Coming?
In an article for Thinking Faith, Philip Endean, SJ, suggests that the blurring of Advent and Christmas might be appropriate. In explaining his position, Endean writes:
We do not know...
Books
Praying with America
Prayer can be difficult to write about, because trying to explain it is something like trying to pin down a butterfly. The more you seek to capture it, the...
Ignatian Voices
A Jesuit’s Pilgrimage Experience
At Jesuits.org, Dan Dixon, SJ, shares his story of pilgrimage to Mexico in 2013, with his initial anxiety and eventual embracing of the experience.
Oaxaca was possibly my favorite city...
Videos
Advent Desire
James Martin, SJ, talks about the connection between Advent and desire in the video below. He says, “Our deepest longing, planted within us, is our Advent desire for Jesus...
Web Community
Sending Christmas Cards or Not?
Paul Sullivan considers the work and cost of sending Christmas cards in a lighthearted post at igNation. He begins:
It’s that time of year again.
You know, when you think about...
Jesuit Saints
Feast of St. Francis Xavier
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Francis Xavier, great missionary and close friend of St. Ignatius.
Francis Xavier had planned to devote himself to the intellectual life, but at...