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God Is Trying to Catch Our Attention

Vinita Hampton Wright

We know that much of prayer is simply paying attention. A prayerful person learns how to tune in, more and more, to the details...

The Cheer-Ups File

Loretta Pehanich

This is the last stop for the Make Today Matter blog hop, in which bloggers have been reflecting on the habits in Chris Lowney’s...

Living Out the Beatitudes, Part One

Marina Berzins McCoy

Pope Francis recently released an apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad). The document is rich in reflections, such as one on...

Ancient Roots of Spiritual Exercises

Tim Muldoon

The French philosopher Pierre Hadot has studied the origins of spiritual exercises among Greek philosophers. There seems to be a straight line from Hellenistic...

Asking for What We Want

Vinita Hampton Wright

I don’t remember being encouraged to ask God for what I wanted, back when my faith was being formed in my childhood and teen—and...

Go Set the World on Fire

Jim Manney

Ignatius often ended his letters to Jesuits going to the missions with the expression ite, inflammate omnia—“go, set the world on fire.” What did...

Make Today Matter Blog Hop

dotMagis Editor

How can small things done every day change us for the better and make the world better too? Author and leadership speaker Chris Lowney...

The Chapel That Moves with Us

Becky Eldredge

There’s no doubt that the pace of our culture continues to get busier and faster. Our days are more cramped with appointments, commitments, and...

Scars and Make Me a Mirror

Mary Ellen Smajo

Scars Some wounds take a long time to heal; some wounds never heal; sometimes there are scars, perpetual evidence of a love well-lived. You still have the wounds, evidence of...