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What I Think About When I Don’t Have to Think

Jim Manney

Reflections

The Gift of a Grandmother’s Love

Brendan McManus, SJ

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Love Lives in the Details

Vinita Hampton Wright

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The Intentional Kindness of a Dessert

Gretchen Crowder

The Ignatian Adventure in Oklahoma City

Spiritual Exercises Sophie Lorenzo

On February 17, 2017, hundreds of faithful in Oklahoma participated in a spiritual enrichment day titled “The Graces of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint...

Unstylish

Reflections Jane Knuth

She is unstylish in the best sense of the word. She walks into the store with a bag too big and bulky to be...

Springtime Scents

Reflections Denise Gorss

We’re somewhere in the middle of spring, which here in Chicago means temperatures jumping from winter-like lows to summer-like highs. The changing of seasons (even...

Feeling the Joy with Jesus

Spiritual Exercises Rebecca Ruiz

A few years ago, a friend gave me some prints of the Laughing Jesus painting. When I saw it, I immediately started laughing. I...

Grief in the Easter Season

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

A few weeks ago, partway through the Easter Octave, my stepfather unexpectedly passed away. The news of his passing initially felt like an impossible...

Discernment Is a Choice of Courage

Discernment dotMagis Editor

In a recent address to seminarians, Pope Francis highlighted three aspects of Ignatian style: friendship with the Lord, discernment, and cultivating the magis, or...

When to Sing Alleluia

Reflections Michelle Francl-Donnay

“From holy Easter until Pentecost without interruption let ‘Alleluia’ be said both in the Psalms and in the responsories.” —from The Rule of St....

What Is an Unhealthy Attachment?

Spiritual Exercises Vinita Hampton Wright

People who are familiar with St. Ignatius, the Spiritual Exercises, or Jesuit spirituality in general will sometimes use the term unhealthy attachment. What is...