I recently saw a demonstration of lacemaking. My first thought: I greatly admire the people who engage in this painstaking craft. My second thought:...

Mary Unties Knots

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

Writing on the British Jesuits' site Thinking Faith, Hedwig Lewis, SJ, gives more background on the devotion to Mary the Untier (or Undoer) of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Beautiful Dawn

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

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

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

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...

Best Ignatian Songs: Mary

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

The singer-songwriter Patty Griffin sang a Best Ignatian Song a couple of years ago. Here's another wonderful Griffin tune, sent along by my friend...

Contemplatives in Action

Ignatian Prayer Andy Otto

There was an old Jesuit vocation poster that showed a cartoon of a Jesuit with his nose in a book while he was sawing...

Best Ignatian Songs: Jesus Is Just Alright

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Today's Best Ignatian Song takes us back to the 70s, to the Jesus movement and to the hippie counterculture that put songs like "Jesus...

Mary Untier of Knots

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

As Pope Francis settles into the tough work of governing the church, I'll bet he's drawing strength from a Marian devotion that he himself...

Best Ignatian Songs: O Bone Jesu

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Here is a sublime Holy Week meditation by the Ignatian Schola, a vocal ensemble in Manhattan composed of Jesuits and lay colleagues. O bone Jesu miserere...

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