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Healing and Comfort

Mary Ellen Smajo

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...

Finding the Purpose

dotMagis Editor

Casey Beaumier, SJ, experienced many uncomfortable shifts during his weeks of pilgrimage, walking from place to place, begging for food and shelter, and allowing...

An Examen for Times of Illness

Vinita Hampton Wright

Physical illness, whether chronic or acute, can render us too distracted and exhausted to keep up with normal activities, among them prayer. Not only...

A Certain Place

Loretta Pehanich

The room where I quilt, the arms of my husband, and sitting in my inherited wingback chair are some of my favorite places. Jesus was...

Angels and Ice Cream

dotMagis Editor

One day a father and his six small children troop single file into the thrift store. The tops of the little ones’ heads are...

A Few Moments to Imagine

Vinita Hampton Wright

I offer a short meditation to take you into the weekend. Get comfortable and take a few deep breaths. Close your eyes. In your...

Five Tips for Beating Loneliness from St. Ignatius

Rebecca Ruiz

A recent study revealed an epidemic of loneliness in America. Loneliness and social isolation isn’t limited to America, though; it’s a global scourge that...

Reviewing the Feelings of Our Day

dotMagis Editor

Reviewing the events of our day, either to thank God or to know our sins, is familiar enough. Reviewing the feelings that those events...

Dancing

Mary Ellen Smajo

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...