Loretta's Book
Spirituality
Calls to Prayer
Every day at 9:20 a.m. an alarm calls me to prayer. This daily pause is a birthday gift to my sister, who is a religious sister. (What do you...
Ignatian Prayer
The Audacity of Using Imagination in Prayer
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 found here, posts on...
Something to Think About
Conversations from Reading with Children
Conversations with children can cycle from hilarious to inspirational to challenging.
When my son was in preschool, I told him once that I’d slept badly. He asked, “Too many hoots?”...
Reflections
Just One of Those Things
“It’s just one of those things,” my grandma used to say all the time. It meant that she heard, but she had no helpful comment or answer to my...
Ignatian Prayer
A Beautiful Gift at the Beautiful Gate
This story is inspired by Acts 3:1–13.
Before meeting the Apostles Peter and John after Christ’s Resurrection, I spent my days unproductively at the Beautiful Gate. Every morning family members...
Reflections
Baby Jesus and Lent’s Refining
It may be Lent, but I’m thinking about the baby Jesus, thanks to a picture of a friend’s grandson, Owen, asleep in his mother’s arms. God, who arrived on...