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Do Not Delay

The last straw which led to Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted...

World Youth Day

Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo with hundreds...

The Life of Pilgrimage

I am in China with my family on a heritage tour, a pilgrimage of sorts.  Those familiar with my book Longing to Love know...

Globalization of Superficiality

Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, spoke to Belgian Jesuits in September 2010 about a "globalization of superficiality," a result...

Holy Imitation

The decisive moment in Ignatius's life came when he realized that he was imitating the wrong person. He realized that imitating the example of...

Attention

Nicholas Carr asks what the internet is doing to our brains.  His answer: rewiring it for easy distraction.  He observes that the way we...

Aim Higher

If you don't know Viktor Frankl's work, read his book Man's Search for Meaning--one of the most important books of the 20th century.  Below...

“I want, I want”

Susan Stabile, an Ignatian spiritual director and law professor, distinguishes between the desire that causes pain and the desire that motivates us: Attachment (what might...

Spiritual Practices: Napping

I'm all for finding God in the silence. For me this means taking lots of naps, especially during the winter with its protracted darkness...

A Boy Named Ambition

Where is Christ being born today?  It certainly isn't where we expect, if history is any guide.  Where, today, is that stable at the...

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