Spiritual Exercises
A Lesson from the Exercises
At Catholic Philly, Effie Caldarola shares her experience with the 19th annotation, or the Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life.
In theory, I always believed God loved me. The Catechism tells...
Ignatian Prayer
Using Imagination to Learn to Let Go
At CatholicMom.com, Susan Bailey wonders, “How can we hope to forget what we can’t forgive? How can we learn to let go of those words and actions that weigh...
Education
Advice for Teachers
While we know that not all readers of this blog are teachers, we do recognize the celebration of Catholic Schools Week. This teacher shares a lesson in finding God...
Spirituality
On Beauty
Two old friends were walking down the road one evening when they began to argue. As they went along, they shouted at one another as each tried to impose...
Ignatian Voices
How Coffee Can Wake Up the Spiritual
At God in All Things, Jacqueline Shrader writes about the Theology of Coffee.
Ignatian spirituality suggests invoking our senses and imagination to encounter God and ourselves. When I am holding...
Spiritual Direction
Waking Up Through Spiritual Direction
Philip Shano, SJ, reflects on the similarities between a personal trainer and a spiritual director.
We are sometimes half asleep, almost in a slumber—whether with our physical or spiritual exercise....