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Encountering God through the Interior Senses

Casey Beaumier, SJ

In my interactions with students at Boston College, where I teach and live with freshmen, I often speak to them about the need for...

A Spirituality of Orality

Tim Muldoon

Nearly 25 years ago, the Jesuit scholar of language Walter J. Ong wrote a seminal work on the difference between spoken and written language, and how...

Eating as Prayer

Lisa Kelly

In preparing to write this blog post on eating as prayer, I did significant firsthand research on the subject. Three times a day I...

Sight Is the Seed of Contemplation

Andy Otto

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

Michelle Francl-Donnay

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

dotMagis Editor

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

dotMagis Editor

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

Loretta Pehanich

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

Jim Manney

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...