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How Autumn Can Enhance Your Spiritual Retreat

Vinita Hampton Wright

Shifts between seasons can boost our ability to do spiritual retreat. For instance, in autumn, we experience a natural regrouping; many of us plan...

Ten Things Forgiveness Is Not

Marina Berzins McCoy

Forgiveness is not the acceptance of injustice. Forgiveness is not a reason to keep things the way they always have been. Forgiveness is...

Getting Started

dotMagis Editor

I once received the following advice as an educator: give students a few minutes to start homework in class, because sometimes getting started can...

If You Lose Your Way in the Fog

dotMagis Editor

If the worst happens, and the fog gets so thick that you really can’t move an inch, try using these tactics: Tell God, and...

Taking Off My Shoes

Tim Muldoon

“Nor can foot feel, being shod” This line from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur” is a commentary on what the poet saw as one...

What Time Is It?

Cindy Ristroph

“What time is it?” “It’s time to die.” Although the conversation between Mamma and her oncologist several months ago didn’t exactly happen with those words, that’s...

Shhh . . . God Is in the Silence

Vinita Hampton Wright

Loyola Press has just published the children’s book, Shhh . . . God Is in the Silence, by Fiona Basile and illustrated by Alice...

Riding the Wave of God’s Surprises

Rebecca Ruiz

Today the Lord invites us to assume an attitude of humble listening and docile waiting, because the grace of God often presents itself to...

You Have Called Me by Name

dotMagis Editor

Oh, Lord my God, You called me from the sleep of nothingness merely because in your tremendous love you want to make good and beautiful beings. You have...