A Father’s Love
The priest concludes his Sunday homily before the interior doors of the church fling open. Just released from Sunday school, the young children crowd...
Keeping the Examen Fresh
We don’t want the Examen to become rote and routine. Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, thinks that as long as we make it an experience...
Social Sin
Ignatius’s worldview did not include an awareness of social sin. He did not identify the unjust structures of society as embodiments of sin, nor...
Invitation to Be Bold
In January 2023, the Lord invited me to hope. At the time, I faced a long journey ahead of rebuilding myself, body and soul,...
Word for the New Year: Love
As we begin a new year, I pray, as I do every year, for God to reveal to me something he’d like me to...
Spiritual Exercises with Children
Pastoral minister Dr. Andy Kereky leads retreats for children based on the Spiritual Exercises. He talks about his experience with Joe Paprocki in an...
Where Is It You Don’t Want to Go?
Consolation is sometimes painful.
On the surface, we fun-seeking humans will do lots of things that are not of God to avoid feeling bad, to...
Advent Light
Advent readings often focus on the theme of light in the midst of darkness, picking up on the words of Isaiah: “The people walking...
Annunciation
San Fermo Maggiore Church in Verona, Italy, features foundation stones from the fifth century, so I was quite surprised to find, tucked behind one...
Loved as I Am
For years now, I have been working on accepting and internalizing a particular truth about God: that God loves me as I am, no...
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