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Why Celebrate Labor Day

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Joe Simmons, SJ, shares 32 Reasons to Celebrate Labor Day. Read the entire list over at The Jesuit Post, but here’s a sampling to...

The Ignatian Take on the Christian Journey

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The Exercises represent a kind of spiritual journey, as they invite the one who makes them to consider the foundational truths of Christian life:...

The Brain, Silly Putty, and Prayer

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After reading a scientific essay about the brain, Jim McDermott writes in America: Because here’s the other crazy-cool thing about the brain: it’s like Silly...

Finding God in Church Events

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At the start of each week, we invite our Ignatian Spirituality Facebook community to share where they have found God in the last few...

Discernment at Different Stages of Life

Vinita Hampton Wright

A major gift from Ignatian spirituality is its wisdom about discernment. Discernment enables us to assess situations, pay attention to various clues, approach our...

Joseph Tetlow on Prayer

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Joseph Tetlow, SJ, is one of the Jesuits' leading authorities on spiritual direction. For years he worked in Rome as head of the Society's...

Leaving Behind the Shoes

Marina Berzins McCoy

About halfway into my time on the Camino de Santiago, my toes began to develop blisters. I had planned my footwear carefully, researching many...

Soon-to-Be-Saint Mother Teresa

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Religion & Ethics Newsweekly recently released a piece on Mother Teresa and Sainthood, featuring comments from Sister Mangala of the Missionaries of Charity; Jim...