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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...

The Holy Family

This past Sunday was the feast of the Holy Family, and it calls to our imagination that "longest sermon" of Jesus first 30 years,...

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...

Annunciations All the Time

My wife disturbed my Advent bliss a couple of days ago when she showed me a poem. I had been sailing along smoothly, humming...

Waiting

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

Releasing Our Captives

I like Phil Fox's Rose's column on practical spirituality on BustedHalo.com.  Recently he wrote an article about the Examen in which he quoted this...

The Pronoun “God”

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...

Saving the World

Something to think about | Much of the reflection in the Exercises is geared to an effort to share the vision of Jesus and...

Advent Is My Favorite Season

Forget childlike excitement on the night before Christmas, this adult is way more enthusiastic about celebrating four weeks of Advent. Advent is my favorite season,...

Desire for What You Want

Desire is a key concept in Ignatian spirituality; we've written about it frequently on dotMagis. (See, for example, here, here, and here.) When we...

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