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Holy Imitation

Discernment Tim Muldoon
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

Discernment Tim Muldoon
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

Discernment Tim Muldoon
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”

Discernment Jim Manney
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

Discernment Meredith Gould
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

Discernment Tim Muldoon
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...

Waiting

Discernment Tim Muldoon
Advent is the season when we remind ourselves of what we are waiting for, keeping at bay the voices which tell us that our...

The Pronoun “God”

Discernment Tim Muldoon
The word "God" is a pronoun whose antecedent we do not know. When we are struck by beauty, when it lays claim to our attention...

Imitatio sancti

Discernment Tim Muldoon
A misspent youth, getting caught up in riches and all sorts of vanity.  A soldier, seeking the honors that the world tells him are...

Newman

Discernment Tim Muldoon
Today Pope Benedict XVI beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of my heroes.  A formative period in my life was during the 1990-91 academic...
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