The Importance of Authenticity
At The Jesuit Post, Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ, writes about “Critique and Authenticity: When the Ideal Obscures the Good.” He relates a story of a...
Arts & Faith: Lent—First Sunday Imaginative Prayer Exercise
Each week of Lent, we’ll provide an Ignatian prayer for you, inspired by a video from Arts & Faith: Lent. The video and prayer...
Pope’s Message for Lent
In his message for Lent 2015, Pope Francis warns against “a globalization of indifference.” He says:
Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents...
Arts & Faith: Lent—Ash Wednesday Imaginative Prayer Exercise
Each week of Lent, we’ll provide an Ignatian prayer for you, inspired by a video from Arts & Faith: Lent. The video and prayer for...
Repetition in Prayer
Repetition is the return to a previous period of prayer for the purpose of allowing the movements of God to deepen within the heart....
Giuseppe Castiglione, SJ: Aesthetic Missionary to China
What would it be like to share the Gospel not through words, but through a vision of what is beautiful? Giuseppe Castiglione, who became known...
Using Imagination to Learn to Let Go
At CatholicMom.com, Susan Bailey wonders, “How can we hope to forget what we can’t forgive? How can we learn to let go of those...
Imaginative Prayer: Breakfast on the Beach
This imaginative prayer exercise is based on John 21:1–14, the story of the risen Christ’s appearance to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias.
You...
How Coffee Can Wake Up the Spiritual
At God in All Things, Jacqueline Shrader writes about the Theology of Coffee.
Ignatian spirituality suggests invoking our senses and imagination to encounter God and...
Please and Our Relationships
Most of us don’t think about the word please much in our daily interactions with colleagues, family, or friends. But Randy Roche, SJ, took some...