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...

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...

Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

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

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

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...

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