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      Seeing Suffering Anew in Christ

      Joseph Tetlow, SJ
      Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re hosting 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian articles…
      Reflections

      Longing for Home

      Rebecca Ruiz
      As I was washing the dishes this morning, the song “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” (sung by Kate Baldwin) came up on my…
      Discernment

      We Can’t Be Anything We Want to Be

      dotMagis Editor
      It’s normal for children to dream of becoming superheroes and unicorns and all sorts of things they cannot become. But we need to grow…
      Spiritual Exercises

      Challenge and the Meditation on Two Standards

      Tim Muldoon
      A central meditation in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises is that of the Two Standards, in which retreatants are to imagine two armies on a…
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    Jean Heaton

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    Jean Heaton is a blogger, writer, speaker, teacher, and a workshop and retreat leader. She is both the mother and the spouse of recovering addicts and has worked her own twelve-step program. Heaton is the author of Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality.
    Spirituality

    Growing My Trust in God

    One day as I was walking down a busy sidewalk, I noticed that the crowd could be divided into two camps. There were those with their gazes fixed upon...
    Jean Heaton
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    Reflections

    My Bravest Prayer

    In August of 2010, I put my then 21-year-old son into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for the first time. Our family immediately began a six-week series of...
    Jean Heaton
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    Reflections

    Consoling Love

    This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the movie, Steel Magnolias, a famous scene takes place in a cemetery where the mother M’Lynn is...
    Jean Heaton
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    Reflections

    The Courage to Accompany Those Who Suffer

    This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Every year, when I read the Scripture passages that recall the Crucifixion of Christ, apprehension begins to creep...
    Jean Heaton
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    Ignatian Prayer

    How Does He Treat His Mother?

    This post is based on Week Six of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. John 2:1–11 details the events that occurred at the wedding feast at Cana. I remember reading this story...
    Jean Heaton
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    Spiritual Exercises

    The Two Standards and Letting Go

    This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. It was the last day of a recovery retreat when my partner, Sister Mary Michael, pulled me aside...
    Jean Heaton
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