Best Ignatian Songs: And the Glory of the Lord
About ten days ago I went to a performance of Handel's Messiah by the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan. I do...
Best Ignatian Songs: Heavenly Day
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: Bolivian Baroque
Our Ignatian song last week was "Gabriel's Oboe" from the movie "The Mission." The movie depicts the dramatic story of the Jesuit "reductions" in...
The Jesuit on the Waterfront
James Fisher, a professor of history at Fordham, has just published On the Irish Waterfront, the story of the New York/New Jersey waterfront, which...
Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe
One of my favorite movies is The Mission, a film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. One of...
Back to School at Cristo Rey
This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for...
Ignatian Contemplation
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: Jesus Was an Only Son
"Some people pray, some people play music," Bruce Springsteen once said, but it's pretty obvious that Bruce prays with much of the music he...
Best Ignatian Songs: For Unto Us a Child Is Born
Christ is at the center of Ignatian spirituality. Much of the Spiritual Exercises consists of meditations on the gospel accounts of the life...
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...