The Best Ignatian Songs: The Palm of Your Hand
"We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one," writes...
The Best Ignatian Songs: Wachet auf
Some years ago NASA was building a planetary probe that would eventually sail out of the solar system into the vastness of interstellar space....
The Best Ignatian Songs: You’ve Got a Friend in Me
William Barry, SJ, one my favorite spiritual writers, says that friendship is at the heart of our relationship with God. So this week I'm...
An Evangelical Lay-Centered Church?
Mark Massa, SJ, tells his students at Fordham that “sitting at Mass doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than sitting in a garage...
The Best Ignatian Songs: Yahweh
My friend Paul Campbell listed the ten best Ignatian movies on his People for Others blog. (The best in his opinion. Check out the...
Kataphatic or Apophatic Prayer?
Did you know that Ignatian prayer is "kataphatic" as opposed to "apophatic?" Neither did I.
Actually, these fancy words point to a useful distinction. "Kataphatic" prayer...