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      Examen

      The Examen: Prayer in Real-Time

      dotMagis Editor
      In the Examen we encounter a God who is active in our day. Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, explains that the Examen is prayer in…
      Reflections

      Continuing Friendship in the Easter Season

      Gretchen Crowder
      I have a confession to make. I tend to forget about Jesus around a week or so into the Easter season each year. It is…
      Spiritual Exercises

      Joy Leads to Our Next Steps

      dotMagis Editor
      This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we reflect on the Resurrection…
      Reflections

      Assuming Failure

      dotMagis Editor
      For all the healing and hope Jesus had brought to perhaps thousands of people, there was no sign by this time that he had…
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    Loretta Pehanich

    Loretta Pehanich is a Catholic freelance writer and the author of 2022: A Book of Grace-Filled Days, Women in Conversation: Stand Up!, and Fleeting Moments: Praying When You Are Too Busy. A spiritual director since 2012, Loretta is trained in giving the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Her involvement in ministry and parish life includes 20 years in small faith-sharing groups and Christian Life Community. Loretta gives retreats and presentations on prayer and women’s spirituality and is commissioned as an extraordinary minister of the Eucharist. She and her husband Steve have four children and 10 grandchildren.
    Ignatian Prayer

    The Consequences of Seeing

    This story is inspired by John 9:1–41, the healing of the man born blind, and Mark 10:46–52, the healing of Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus and I talked about it. His healing was...
    Loretta Pehanich
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    Ignatian Prayer

    Following Jesus into the Desert

    After my baptism, I returned daily to the river and watched. When John said, “Behold the Lamb of God,” we applauded. Some danced. Some jumped into the water and...
    Loretta Pehanich
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    Reflections

    Holy Incident Was No Accident

    It was the kind of day when everything was going wrong. I could recite a litany of all the mishaps and disasters. I knew I needed a lifeline by...
    Loretta Pehanich
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    Reflections

    I Can’t Wait

    My daughter just sent the dates when her family will be with us over the Christmas week. I can’t wait to see them. I can’t wait to decorate our...
    Loretta Pehanich
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    Reflections

    Prayers Rising

    “Let my prayer be counted as incense before you.” —Psalm 141:2 I just blew out my candle on my desk, and the smoke billows upward. I take my palms and...
    Loretta Pehanich
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    Reflections

    In the Mother Church of the Jesuits

    As I write this, the Society of Jesus meets in Rome for their 36th General Congregation. It amazes me that despite being founded by St. Ignatius in 1540, the...
    Loretta Pehanich
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