For Lent, Try An Ignatian Prayer Adventure (Online Retreat)
What are you doing for Lent? Am I the first to ask? Ash Wednesday is only two weeks from today--a date I've been keenly aware...
Welcome to the Jesuit Post
A bunch of young Jesuits launched a new website yesterday called The Jesuit Post. Content will range very widely indeed. The first batch of...
Scorsese’s Next Film?
There have been rumblings about director Martin Scorsese making a film of Shusaku Endo's magnificent historical novel Silence, about Japanese martyrs of the 17th...
A Parent’s Creche
I came back from the Christmas break to find a link to this lovely reflection in my mailbox. It's by Maureen McCann Waldron, who...
The Prayer of Imagination
Ruth Workman, a spiritual director, describes how Ignatian prayer invigorated her prayer life:
Next we were introduced to an Ignatian practice, a prayer of imagination....
Gratitude Exercises
Here are some exercises to heighten your sense of gratitude. They were written by my friend Vinita Wright and published in her book Days...
Helps for Observing Advent
Advent begins on Sunday. You might want to look at some of the very helpful material the team at Loyola Press has put together...
Some Definite Service
I've already mentioned The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ. Sprinkled throughout are prayers and poems. I really liked this one from John Henry Cardinal...
Why Edgar Allen Poe Liked the Jesuits
Church historian Pat McNamara writes about how the Jesuits at St. John's College (later Fordham University) befriended Edgar Allen Poe in the last years...
Losing One’s Life
Luis Espinal, SJ, is a Jesuit hero I hadn't heard about. He was a Spanish Jesuit who worked for social justice in Bolivia. He...
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