Best Ignatian Songs: Annie's Song
This Best Ignatian Song comes from Kristi Gonsalves-McCabe, director of University Ministry at Regis University in Denver. She writes:
I've lived in Colorado for 9 years...
Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Darkness
Reader Nancy Walton-House nominates this week's Best Ignatian Song. It's a lovely piece: “Holy Darkness" by Dan Schutte, one of the St. Louis Jesuits....
Best Ignatian Songs: Anima Christi
Here is a beautiful choral setting of the Anima Christi, the prayer that Ignatius placed at the beginning of the Spiritual Exercises. This is...
Best Ignatian Songs: You Are My Vision
Discerning reader Andrew nominated the classic hymn "Be Thou my Vision" as a Best Ignatian Song. You'll probably recognize it. I've sung it in...
Best Ignatian Songs: The Wings of a Dove
There's a real tear-jerker scene in the movie Tender Mercies when Mac Sledge's estranged daughter asks him to sing the song "The Wings of...
Best Ignatian Songs: Below My Feet
I'm a fan of the British band Mumford and Sons. Marcus Mumford has said that his lyrics are "a deliberately spiritual thing but deliberately...
Best Ignatian Songs: Picture of Jesus
A few weeks ago I promised to pick a gospel song for our Best Ignatian Songs feature. Here's a good one: "Picture of Jesus,"...
Best Ignatian Songs: Jesus Was an Only Son
"Jesus Was an Only Son" is one of Bruce Springsteen's loveliest songs, but many of the Boss's fans--even more-than-casual fans--don't know about it. Bruce...
Best Ignatian Songs: Beautiful Dawn
Break-up songs are so plentiful that they constitute a whole category of popular music. My personal favorite is Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright."...
Best Ignatian Songs: That's Why I Pray
A tip of the dotMagis hat to Tim Merriman, who has included many of this blog's Best Ignatian Songs on a Spotify playlist. (Join...