Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re hosting 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian articles found...

Challenge and the Meditation on Two Standards

Spiritual Exercises Tim Muldoon

A central meditation in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises is that of the Two Standards, in which retreatants are to imagine two armies on a...

One Particular Cat and the Resurrection

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I don’t like cats. We never had a cat growing up. We were all...

The Sorrow Christ Endured for Me

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I never seemed to have enough bug spray in Bolivia. Not that it...

Princess Parties and the Call of Christ the King

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. “Today is Snow White’s birthday.” This, out of the blue, unprompted, and in...

Our Presence Is Enough

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. We had only been home for a handful of hours. We were groggy...

Humility in Lent

Spiritual Exercises Marina Berzins McCoy

This Lent, I have been reflecting and praying about humility. As a concept, humility is simple: thinking that no one else is any better...

Darth Vader and the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. There’s a scene in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi that neatly sums...

Rigid or Rearranged?

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. My collection of Star Wars LEGO sets has increased about 400%—an unintended, though...

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