Best Ignatian Songs: After the Storm
My daughter Laura turned me on to the British band Mumford and Sons. They're something special. "After the Storm" speaks of longing for God,...
400 Years of Jesuits in Canada
Jesuits arrived in Canada in 1611, and went on to shape significant parts of that nation's history as missionaries, explorers, and educators. To mark...
An Ignatian Pilgrimage
A group of lay people and Jesuits have set up a new pilgrimage route in Spain that should appeal to walkers and cyclists with...
The Powers in Created Things
This prayer by the Jesuit saint Robert Bellarmine puts a new spin on finding God on all things:What various powers lie hidden in plants!...
Pray for Those Who Persecute You
Walter Ciszek, SJ, spent fifteen years in prison in the Soviet Union for doing clandestine missionary work. He describes his prayer:"Gradually too, I learned...
A Hero’s Jesuit Son
Church historian Pat McNamara has written a fascinating account of the life of Thomas Ewing Sherman, SJ, an American Jesuit in the late nineteenth...
World Youth Day
Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo with hundreds...
Peter Faber: The Second Jesuit
Tuesday was the Feast of Peter Faber (Favre), SJ, sometimes called "the second Jesuit" because he was especially close to Ignatius when the order was...
Ignatian Imagination
Among dictionary definitions of imagination, two fit Ignatius very well. One says that imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something...
Best Ignatian Songs: Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Some time ago I featured the Natalie Merchant song "Wonder" in our occasional "Best Ignatian Songs" feature. Here is another. It's a...