Jim's Books
Spirituality
What Ignatius Would Say to Lay Persons
Human life has meaning. We are not aimless beings, without a goal or purpose. We have been created by a God who loves us. We are called to build...
Ignatian Prayer
The Powers in Created Things
This prayer by the Jesuit saint Robert Bellarmine puts a new spin on finding God on all things:What various powers lie hidden in plants! What strange powers are found...
Ignatian Prayer
Pray for Those Who Persecute You
Walter Ciszek, SJ, spent fifteen years in prison in the Soviet Union for doing clandestine missionary work. He describes his prayer:"Gradually too, I learned to purify my prayer and...
Reflections
Unwritten Rules
Recently, tempers flared in a close game between the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Angels. The Angel pitcher got mad at a Tiger who ran the bases too...
Jesuit History
A Hero’s Jesuit Son
Church historian Pat McNamara has written a fascinating account of the life of Thomas Ewing Sherman, SJ, an American Jesuit in the late nineteenth century and the son of...
St. Ignatius Loyola
“His Divine Majesty Is Truly In All Things”
St. Ignatius, writing about the formation of young Jesuits:They should practice the seeking of God's presence in all things, in their conversations, their walks, in all that they see,...