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Gifts You Can Offer

Vinita Hampton Wright

Consider that you are a person brimming with gifts. Do you dare offer them to a world always in need of love and wisdom?...

The Joyful Mary and St. Ignatius

Denise Gorss

My mother has a figurine of Mary joyfully holding the baby Jesus. She raises him up playfully, and we see their eye contact and...

10 Things to Love About Ignatian Spirituality

Rebecca Ruiz

Editor’s note: This post is part of “Counting the Gifts of Ignatian Spirituality.” Here are 10 things I love about Ignatian spirituality. 1. It promotes lasting...

Listening for God When We’re Stuck

Becky Eldredge

Have you ever had a moment when desolation hit you so hard you felt like you were stuck in the mud? Just a few...

A Letter to Jesus

Fiona Basile

This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Dear Jesus, For the past eight weeks, we’ve been walking together in a special...

Experiencing Easter

Marina Berzins McCoy

I can think of many instances when the Easter season has liturgically fit with my life: times when there was new life as I...

Contemplating the Passion with St. Ignatius

Rebecca Ruiz

In the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we contemplate the Passion of Jesus. St. Ignatius advises us to pray for the grace of...

Love to the End

Fiona Basile

This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. This is a painful week in the Spiritual Exercises as I accompany Jesus...

Lamentation: The Weight of Grief

Shemaiah Gonzalez

Niccolò dell’Arca’s Mourning over the Dead Christ, often simply called Lamentation, moves us into the depths of Good Friday’s grief. (See a video of...