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I Am Not Worthy

Loretta Pehanich

I slipped into the church, unseen by the women cleaning on Saturday morning; the vacuum’s blare wiped out my footsteps. Early for a women’s...

Ignatian Indifference

Marina Berzins McCoy

Often, we think about freedom as freedom from interference from others, but St. Ignatius understood freedom differently. For him, human freedom is a freedom...

A Person Made of Light

dotMagis Editor

Suppose there were a reality faster than light, so superenergized that it would be at rest, everywhere at once. Every object we see—though it...

Four Ways to Recreate This Summer

Vinita Hampton Wright

As we move into the summer season, let’s consider recreation—as in play, amusement, or leisure. How can we recreate? 1. Turn off all your screens.Because...

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...