Reflections
Small Changes for a Big Year: Choose Silence
Editor’s note: This week we’ve invited our dotMagis bloggers to reflect on small changes for a big year.
What if a new year wasn’t about more, but less?
We make our...
Ignatian Prayer
To Give and Not to Count the Cost
We’ve invited our dotMagis bloggers to reflect on the individual lines of the Prayer for Generosity, attributed to St. Ignatius.
My heart always sinks at the line in the Prayer...
Reflections
Sharing a Moment with a Stranger on Vacation
Entering Westminster Abbey on vacation with my 10-year-old son, I overheard a man with an American accent ask, “Can we take photos?”
“No, sorry, sir,” the docent apologized.
I remembered being...
Reflections
Four Hidden Places I’ve Found God
In my practice of looking for God, it’s rarely in the spotlight moments that I find him. It’s in the small, hidden places that God chooses to reveal himself....
Spirituality
Lamentation: The Weight of Grief
Niccolò dell’Arca’s Mourning over the Dead Christ, often simply called Lamentation, moves us into the depths of Good Friday’s grief. (See a video of this piece of art below...
Reflections
Waving to a Stranger
Standing in a piazza in Lucca, Italy, dappled sunlight shining down on me, I licked gelato al limone while my husband peeked in storefront windows. Our boys traded licks...