O'Malley on the Spiritual Exercises
John O'Malley, SJ, is the featured speaker in the first of a series of videos on the Spiritual Exercises produced by Georgetown University. The...
Waiting in the Dark
My sister and her husband, who live in Oregon, had their inaugural bike ride of the season yesterday. She wrote that the sun was...
Pray with Jesuits for Lent
Ash Wednesday was only yesterday, so it's not too late to start a Lenten prayer program. We suggested several last week. Here are two...
Spiritual Exercises for the Young
Nathan Stone, SJ, makes a strong case for giving the Spiritual Exercises to young people. He thinks that veteran spiritual directors are too cautious...
Why Make the Spiritual Exercises?
The best way to savor the graces of Ignatian spirituality (usually) is to make the Spiritual Exercises. Opportunities to do this have greatly expanded...
The most beautiful thing in the world
...is a child sleeping. I am sometimes awed by just the feeling that rises up in me when beholding one of my daughters asleep;...
Sexuality and Ignatian Spirituality
Tim Muldoon, who blogs here at dotMagis, has published an excellent article on sexuality and Ignatian spirituality in The Way, a journal published by...
Bodies, Beauty, and the Grace of the First Week
Sticking with the theme of new year's resolutions, I've been thinking about a common one: getting fit.
It struck me yesterday, while watching a Boston...
The Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Work
Maureen Waldron of Creighton University thinks that Jesuits should make special efforts to expand the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises to include the lay...
Resolutions?
I'm not one to make new year's resolutions, but because my calendar now says 2010 I can't help but think a little about them.
I...