This is a guest post by Michelle Francl-Donnay, as she begins An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I am standing in front of the chair in my study, the materials for this time of prayer close at hand: my Bible marked with...

St. Ignatius throughout the Spiritual Exercises suggests that we prepare ourselves before we enter into the specific exercise. He suggests preparing the night before: “After retiring, just before falling asleep, for the space of a Hail Mary, I will...

This Lent we are offering a prayer exercise, “From Ashes to Glory,” based on Ignatius's Examen. It is by Joseph Tetlow, SJ, a writer and esteemed spiritual director who has had a lot to do with the growing popularity...

Jake Martin, SJ, author of What's So Funny about Faith?, shares how we can find God in pop culture.

I have a friend who says that the basis of all true religion is believing that "There is a God and I'm not him."  That's the spirit of this updating of the Serenity Prayer by Jim Martin, SJ. An...

This is the preface to God Finds Us, my book about the Spiritual Exercises: A few years ago I made the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola with the help of a cheerful Jesuit named Dennis. I had always thought of...

People who know that I write about Ignatian spirituality sometimes ask me about the Spiritual Exercises. What are they? What do you do? What can you expect? I tell them what I know.  Since I made a 19th annotation...

Last year we launched An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, an eight-week online adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises. As we draw close to Lent 2013, I invite you to participate again or for the first time. Guest bloggers Michelle Francl-Donnay and Greg...

There are times in our prayer lives that we feel God is absent, or we struggle to feel or hear God in prayer. Those dry periods of prayer are incredibly challenging, especially when trying to discern. It is not...

This blog is interested in all things Magis, so we're solidly behind Magis 2013, a festival of Jesuit-sponsored service projects and cultural experiences leading up to World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro this coming July.  Young people from...