Jim Manney

Jim Manney is the author of highly praised popular books on Ignatian spirituality, including A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer (about the Daily Examen) and God Finds Us (about the Spiritual Exercises). He is the compiler/editor of An Ignatian Book of Days. His latest book is What Matters Most and Why. He and his wife live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Books by Jim Manney

Jim's Books

  • A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer
  • Una oración sencilla que cambia la vida
  • Ignatian Spirituality A to Z
  • An Ignatian Book of Days
  • God Finds Us
  • Charged with Grandeur
  • What's Your Decision?

Sports News: Jesuits Take Clericus Cup

In America, Jesuit schools are famous for their basketball teams.  In Europe, it's soccer.  In Rome this week the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University defeated the Dominicans of the Angelicum...

Asking God for a Sunny Day

Armand Nigro, SJ, urges us to pray for what we want: When we beg God for sunny weather, or pray that our bursitis will go away, or pray for something...

The Examen and Other Prayers

During Lent we published six audio-visual guided Examens that introduce the Ignatian Examen prayer.  These were very popular, and they now have a permanent home here on this site. ...

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Loyola Productions has made a DVD featuring Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, talking about twelve of his favorite saints.  It's based, of course, Jim's best-selling book My Life with the...

Young Adult Retreats

A team of young Jesuits will be barnstorming up and down the East Coast this summer giving weekend retreats for young adults.  The team is called the Jesuit Mission...

Preparing to Pray

Michelle Francl-Donnay on getting ready to pray: In his “Spiritual Exercises,” St. Ignatius of Loyola recommends that we come to the threshold of prayer — literally, stop a few...