"Everything in God's universe is present-tense. Divine love transcends time and place. So it's never really too late to pray for a person or to express love to that beloved soul," says Vinita Wright in the below video. It's...

I recently discovered the haunting ballad "Mercy Now" by the roots singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier. It's a lovely, heartfelt prayer: Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now I know we don't deserve it But we need it anyhow We hang in the...

I've just discovered a fine app that delivers daily Ignatian reflections and prayer to your mobile device.  The Jesuit Prayer app also gives you the scripture readings of the day and it features downloadable prayer cards and a link...

For years, in times of stress and pain, Brian Busse, SJ, would find a quiet place to smoke a cigarette or two. A bad habit to be sure, but it was the first step in the direction of reflection...

The stench of the mud hut with the tin roof that was home to a woman dying of breast cancer, her two children in torn, dirty clothes, and their cow—that stench will never leave me. After 12 days in the...

Ryan Duns, SJ, has a couple of interesting posts about the recent televised exchange between Oprah Winfrey and the swimmer Diana Nyad about atheism and awe. Nyad, an atheist, said she experiences awe: "I can stand at the beach's...

A poem by Scott Cairns: Your petitions—though they continue to bear just the one signature—have been duly recorded. Your anxieties—despite their constant,relatively narrow scope and inadvertent entertainment value—nonetheless serve to bring your person vividly to mind.Your repentance—all but obscured beneath a burgeoning, yellow fog of...

Tomorrow is the feast of the North American Martyrs, eight French Jesuits who were tortured and killed in southern Ontario and upstate New York in the mid-17th century during warfare between the Iroquois and Huron Indians. These Jesuits worked in...

It's safe to say that doing a year of service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) changed my life. I served as a teacher/lunch coordinator at Detroit Cristo Rey High School, in the heart of a small neighborhood called...

John Shea, SJ, reflects on randomness, God's plans, and evolution in the Jesuit Post. Uncertainty allows us "to find beauty in the 'cracks' and 'spills' of a seemingly random life." It invites us into an experience of God that we...