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    Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Darkness

    Reader Nancy Walton-House nominates this week's Best Ignatian Song. It's a lovely piece: “Holy Darkness" by Dan Schutte, one of the St. Louis Jesuits....
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    Best Ignatian Songs: Anima Christi

    Here is a beautiful choral setting of the Anima Christi, the prayer that Ignatius placed at the beginning of the Spiritual Exercises. This is...
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    Best Ignatian Songs: You Are My Vision

    Discerning reader Andrew nominated the classic hymn "Be Thou my Vision" as a Best Ignatian Song. You'll probably recognize it. I've sung it in...

    Best Ignatian Songs: The Wings of a Dove

    There's a real tear-jerker scene in the movie Tender Mercies when Mac Sledge's estranged daughter asks him to sing the song "The Wings of...

    Best Ignatian Songs: Picture of Jesus

    A few weeks ago I promised to pick a gospel song for our Best Ignatian Songs feature.  Here's a good one: "Picture of Jesus,"...

    Best Ignatian Songs: Beautiful Dawn

    Break-up songs are so plentiful that they constitute a whole category of popular music.  My personal favorite is Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright."...

    Best Ignatian Songs: That's Why I Pray

    A tip of the dotMagis hat to Tim Merriman, who has included many of this blog's Best Ignatian Songs on a Spotify playlist.  (Join...

    Best Ignatian Songs: Mary

    The singer-songwriter Patty Griffin sang a Best Ignatian Song a couple of years ago. Here's another wonderful Griffin tune, sent along by my friend...

    Best Ignatian Songs: Jesus Is Just Alright

    Today's Best Ignatian Song takes us back to the 70s, to the Jesus movement and to the hippie counterculture that put songs like "Jesus...

    Best Ignatian Songs: O Bone Jesu

    Here is a sublime Holy Week meditation by the Ignatian Schola, a vocal ensemble in Manhattan composed of Jesuits and lay colleagues. O bone Jesu miserere...

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