This week's Ignatian song is the lovely ballad "Heavenly Day," written by the eclectic folk-county-rock artist Patty Griffin. I ran across it about the...

Best Ignatian Songs: To Be a Pilgrim

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

In his autobiography, St. Ignatius Loyola wrote of himself in the third person as "the pilgrim." As David Fleming, SJ, writes in What Is...

A Group Examen

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

The daily Examen is the most familiar and widely-practiced form of Ignatian prayer. Millions of people pray it every day. Philip Shano, SJ, takes...

Best Ignatian Songs: Stand By Me

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

You may have already seen this week's Ignatian song on YouTube. More than 14 million people have. It's an inventive version of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Every Grain of Sand

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

It's back to Bob Dylan for this week's Ignatian song. It's "Every Grain of Sand," one of Dylan's many songs with powerful Biblical imagery....

Getting Started in Ignatian Discernment

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

The goal of Ignatian discernment is to discover where God is active in our lives. Here is a simple two-step exercise to get started...

Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

One of my favorite movies is The Mission, a film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. One of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Livin' on a Prayer

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

This week's Ignatian song is the hard rock classic "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. It's about a working class couple "livin'...

Administration as a Spiritual Path

Ignatian Voices Jim Manney

People who work as administrators grumble about it all the time. "Another meeting." "Another performance review." "Another crisis." Yet administration is on St. Paul's...

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