One of my most challenging classes freshman year in college was physics. I remember going through class after class being completely perplexed as the...

Staring Our Way to Recognition

Reflections Vinita Hampton Wright

Have you ever seen something that you could not identify as anything familiar, and so all you could do was stare at it in...

Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 2

Spiritual Exercises Vinita Hampton Wright

In terms of the Spiritual Exercises, one critical goal of writing a spiritual autobiography is to recognize God’s action in our past: God’s presence,...

Resumé and Eulogy Virtues

Discernment Marina Berzins McCoy

Last month, I attended an online funeral held for William Barry, SJ, a well-known Jesuit spiritual director and author who recently went home to...

Perspective

Spiritual Exercises Gretchen Crowder

Every year for the past few years, I have chosen a word of the year. I do not have an elaborate process for choosing...

Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 1

Spiritual Exercises Vinita Hampton Wright

St. Ignatius understood the importance of reviewing one’s life when he built this practice into the Spiritual Exercises centuries ago. His emphasis was to...

The Contemplation on the Incarnation and Advent

Spiritual Exercises Becky Eldredge

The Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises begins with a Contemplation on the Incarnation (SE 101–109). The graces we pray for with this meditation...

A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

Reflections Vinita Hampton Wright

Thanksgiving will be different this year. As I write this, in early November, the United States is experiencing a new and frightening spike in...

Cobwebs and Cataracts

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

Joan had cataract surgery. Overnight she developed all kinds of wrinkles. Well, actually, she simply hadn’t seen them before. With her eyesight improved, looking...

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