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Stewards of Pain

Jim Manney

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Jesus Wants All of Us

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Discernment

Apple Picking and Discernment

Marina Berzins McCoy

The Examen Is Good for Men

Examen Jim Manney

The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on...

Make an Online Retreat

Books Jim Manney

If you would like to make a retreat, but can't get away for a weekend at a Jesuit retreat house, take a look at...

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...

A Judge for the Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Exercises Jim Manney

The Spiritual Exercises were originally given in a month-long retreat of about 30 days. Today, the most common way to make the Exercises is...

All Creatures of Our God and King

Reflections Meredith Gould

Just opened a can of (dolphin-safe) tuna and almost drained the can into cute little bowls that I no longer have for cats who...

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...

“I was a stranger”

Reflections Meredith Gould

I should probably cut myself a break. After all, it has only been six weeks since I moved to Baltimore (aka Charm City and...

Using the Examen to Change

Examen Jim Manney

Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark. When we try to change we simply...

His Life Was Good but His Thinking Was Bad

Examen Jim Manney

One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with...