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Sight Is the Seed of Contemplation

The Examen begins with an awareness of God’s presence, imagining God gazing upon us with love. It’s this gaze that taps us into the...

Touching the Stars

Bob Macke, SJ, the curator of the Vatican Observatory’s meteorite collection, is rooting around in a drawer. He pulls out a plastic bag with...

Sunday Link for 31 Days with St. Ignatius

It’s day 10 of our 31-day journey of Ignatian spirituality. Today we consider God as Mystery, God as Neighbor by Jurell Sison. If you’ve joined us a few days...

Saturday Link for 31 Days with St. Ignatius

It’s day 9 of our 31-day journey in Ignatian spirituality. Today we share the excerpt Repetition in Prayer from Love: A Guide for Prayer...

A Fragrance of Love

The aroma of fresh coffee sends me to bed every night as I lock the doors and my husband grinds the beans for the...

Finding God in Music

There’s something thoroughly Ignatian about finding God in music. St. Ignatius’s spiritual approach mostly bypasses the concepts and ideas stuffed into our heads and...

Engaging the Senses Through Your Imagination

If you’re a regular church-goer, you’ve probably heard something like the following, oh, maybe a million times: “God loved us so much that he...

Encountering God through the Smells of Childhood

In her book, Taste and See: Experiencing the Goodness of God with Our Five Senses, Ginny Kubitz Moyer offers us a beautiful Examen that...

Sight at Bethsaida

This story is inspired by Mark 8:22–26, the blind man of Bethsaida. It uses Ignatian contemplation and the imagination’s eye to reflect on the...

Sunday Link for 31 Days with St. Ignatius

We begin our first full week of 31 Days with St. Ignatius with this featured link: Why Bother Praying the Examen? by Cara Callbeck. Share your...

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