What kind of relationship do you have with God? Think about the possibility of having a friendship with God. That's our topic in today's video contribution to An Ignatian Prayer Adventure (Week 6).

Imaginative prayer is a big part of the Ignatian Adventure retreat, now in week six, and it's been a big topic on this blog.  I remembered a helpful thing that Lisa Kelly wrote a while ago--it's fine to imagine...

When my son, Brady, was eight weeks old, I led my first Charis retreat in the Diocese of Baton Rouge. I remember kneeling at the closing Mass, both exhausted and energized from juggling being both mom and minister, and...

A major feature of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius is our focus on knowing Jesus and relating to him personally. Each person comes from a unique background, family, culture, and time, and so no two people will perceive...

Keep the focus on Jesus and not on ourselves. That's my advice this week, as you'll see in the below video contribution to An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, Week 6.

To follow Jesus we must know him, and we get to know him through our imagination. Imaginative Ignatian prayer teaches us things about Jesus that we would not learn through scripture study or theological reflection. It allows the person...

A key meditation of the Spiritual Exercises is the meditation on the Two Standards. At this point in the Exercises we've reckoned with both our hopes and our failings; we've reckoned with our sin and also the redemptive grace,...

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading good ideas.  It does this mainly through conferences featuring short talks, which are then published on the web.  Here is a very good one by an academic researcher whose motto was "if...

The Spiritual Exercises ask us to look at Christ and what he stands for. We're instructed to imagine him as a good king who brings his forces against the evil king. In today's world, especially here in the West,...

The idea of magis comes from the Call of the King meditation in the Spiritual Exercises. There's a response to Christ's invitation beyond whole-hearted. We can reach for the magis. This video is a part of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure,...