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Best Ignatian Songs: "Comfort, Comfort, O My People"

"Comfort, Comfort, O My People" is a lovely Advent hymn, based on verses from Isaiah 40.  This version is by the Ignatian Schola, a...

Best Ignatian Songs: "O Come O Come Emmanuel"

It's early December, winter, cold mornings and barren landscapes and leaden skies. It's the time of Advent--the season of longing for the light of Christ...

A Litany of Gifts

I love Thanksgiving.  It's less hectic than Christmas, and it's mainly about enjoying family and friends (food too, of course).  A few years ago,...

Praying with Art

Some new age philosophies say that the five senses are the tip of the iceberg and that there are deeper realities beyond our bodily...

Best Ignatian Songs: The Weight of Lies

Here's a song to enjoy--and ponder.  “The Weight of Lies" by the folk-rock-bluegrass band The Avett Brothers is about the wages of self-delusion: "The weight...

Paying Attention

The other night I had some down time.  I was plugged-in: I channel-flipped between the Tigers-Yankees playoff game and the presidential debate, texted with...

Distractions in Prayer

Becky Eldredge and Paul Brian Campbell, SJ, sat down this summer for a conversation about Ignatian spirituality. In this video on distractions in prayer,...

How Indifferent Are You?

Ignatius really means it when he says that we need to be "indifferent to all created things."  In his Principle and Foundation at the...

Why Go to Church?

In this age when more and more people describe themselves as spiritual but not religious, it is helpful to recall Ignatius's understanding of the...

Prayer Lessons in Spin Class

Michael Rossmann, SJ, took up spinning to keep in shape during the winter. He lists 11 lessons he relearned while he rode his stationary...

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