Ash Wednesday is next week, so today we’re highlighting some of the many online features designed to help you observe Lent. The Ignatian Workout for LentTim Muldoon’s audio reflections accompany suggestions for prayer and action each Monday during Lent and...

Jason Vaz, SJ, provides some helpful images to distinguish consolation and desolation in a recent post at the igNation blog. He concludes with questions for consideration, particularly for those experiencing loneliness: Where am I in relation to the fire? Am...

Andy Otto, blogger here at dotMagis, has produced morning and evening audio meditations to help us ask for the grace we seek each day and reflect on whether the grace was given before bed. Enjoy the morning reflection below. Visit...

Atlanta-area readers may be interested in an upcoming retreat at Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center. Spiritual director and artist Claudia Campbell is leading a Lenten silent retreat during which participants will “contemplate the passion of Christ through the paintings...

It’s been a miserable winter for many people, with record-breaking snowstorms and chilling temperatures. As I write this, we are about to get hammered with yet another snowstorm, and nearly every face I see seems to carry a scowl....

Do you bring Jesus to work with you? Perhaps, like me, you suspect that Jesus would not be too popular in your workplace. I work in the public sector as a labour relations specialist. I deal with people in...

Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, died last week after a battle with cancer. The New Testament scholar was a professor at Boston College and author of many books, including Meeting St. Matthew Today and Meeting St. Paul Today. Read his thoughts...

It was the parental conversation when I realized I had lost all control. “You are not getting a tattoo!” I declared to my 18-year-old son, who just smiled back at me slyly with that I-love-you-but-you-know-you-can’t-do-anything-about-it look. Eight more months and...

Charles Frederico, SJ, is the Vocation Director for the Maryland / New England / New York Provinces of the Society of Jesus. He responds to the question of whether there is a “Pope Francis effect” increasing vocations. He says,...

Weeks away from the due date for our third child, I find myself in full-out nesting mode! I am not sure where the energy or drive comes from, but with both of my other pregnancies, something deep within me...