Best Ignatian Songs: Every Grain of Sand
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
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...
Lunar Footnote
NASA has announced that its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will strike the Cabeus A crater near the south pole of...
Best Ignatian Songs: Bolivian Baroque
Our Ignatian song last week was "Gabriel's Oboe" from the movie "The Mission." The movie depicts the dramatic story of the Jesuit "reductions" in...
Ignatian Spirituality in Music
Ruth Sherer Leacock is a songwriter and musician who wrote many songs as a way to preserve her experience of the Spiritual Exercises. She...
Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe
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
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
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...
Ignatian Contemplation
Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of...
Best Ignatian Songs: Ripple
This week's song selection is "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead. It was recommended by John Montag, SJ, who wrote on the Ignatian Spirituality Facebook...