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...

America magazine has republished a classic article by the late Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, that makes an intriguing argument. Dulles says that two tendencies are poised in tension in the spirituality of Ignatius: "between immediacy and mediation, between personal...

I love it because you saw something. No: rather, something invited your gaze to linger and see beauty,And you paused long enough to catch this wispBefore it passed like a plaything through the hands of a child. You will say that...

There is that old adage that says, “When God closes one door, God opens another one.” When my husband and I were overwhelmed with the closing of a door two years ago, a friend of mine said to me,...

I pushed a double stroller and followed Batman and a ballerina on their training bikes today. The course is tricky for a training bike, because without the proper velocity, the biker gets stuck between the missing pieces of the neglected...

Finding God in all things is a big part of Ignatian spirituality. But finding God in the boring parts of life is easier said than done. Here are five ways (aside from the Examen) to find God in all...

Vinita Wright, on her blog Days of Deepening Friendship, often shares video reflections on various spiritual topics. This one asks us to practice noticing as a spiritual discipline. If you're receiving this via e-mail, click through to watch the video...

Fr. Joseph Bruce, SJ, one of the few priests in the world who has been deaf since childhood, ministers to a predominately deaf congregation in Landover, Maryland.  Marlana Portolano, a member of the congregation, recently wrote in America about Fr....