A Truth-Telling Thanksgiving Prayer
St. Ignatius urged his followers to converse with Jesus in the same way that one would speak with a very dear friend. In his...
Abiding Love
Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re celebrating 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian...
Love As If . . .
Love as if loving is the first thing on your to-do list.
Love as if you have no other plan but to love.
Love as if...
The Grace of Autumn
Autumn Leaves
Summer’s end
cathedral windows
paint pale canvas,
dapple our shadows
with sight,
for colors pieced and patched
quilt earth to sky;
precious colors
once hidden within,
made plain by grace,
grace us.
Fall’s Last...
Giving in God’s Name
A Room Filled with Treasure
You showed me a room filled with treasure,
precious, priceless,
and told me it was mine;
I marveled:
what a gift!
such abundance!
a comfort to...
Breathing
While we’re often called to actively participate in God’s good work in the world, sometimes God tells us to stop for a bit and...
Healing and Comfort
Sometimes God heals and comforts us, like Jesus did for Jairus’s daughter, the woman with the hemorrhage, and Peter’s mother-in-law. Sometimes God heals and...
Dancing
Pentecost
I watch Your branches dance,
bathed in morning sun,
and wonder at the work
of Spirit’s breath
between the leaves;
what You have begun
You will fulfill,
and we who wait
so...
Scars and Make Me a Mirror
Scars
Some wounds take a long time to heal;
some wounds never heal;
sometimes there are scars,
perpetual evidence of a love well-lived.
You still have the wounds,
evidence of...
Triduum Poems
Sunsong
(Gethsemane prayer, Holy Thursday)
sunlight pours upon the field in early autumn.
wheat grows thin,
nourishing the wind.
soft-spoken daffodils
wait for the tide,
sheltered only by a song.
now shall...
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