My husband, Jim, and I had traveled to another town and called an old friend - Fr. Dennis, a priest we had known for a long time.  He had been forced into retirement by a debilitating disease. He invited...

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised...

Sometimes God has fun with me. Today was one of those days. I went to a local farm with extended family. My girls had fun with some lovely little bunnies all white and Easterish. After a while I walked around...

A reflection for Holy Week: Those who really do know and love will . . . see the suffering of all the people whom God puts in their life world and strive with great effort to grieve with them...

Perhaps because I feel as if I have been brought back to life after a 12-day siege with the flu, I have been thinking a lot about Lazarus.  It's such a deep and wonderful Gospel with Jesus standing at...

Our sixth and last Lunchtime Examen goes online today. This week's question is "What shall I do?" It's about the final step of the traditional Ignatian examen--the action we take to love God and other people in the day...

Yesterday the Ignatian Spirituality page on Facebook passed a milestone when it received its 10,000th "like."  That's a nice big round number--something to celebrate.  God is found in all things.  In the wired up, interconnected, always-on digital world of...

Yesterday I accompanied a group of 50 Boston College students to see the film Of Gods and Men (Des Hommes et Des Dieux), the story of the kidnapping and murder of the monks of Tibhirine, in Algeria, in 1996....

Lent?  Not a big fan of this season, even though I'm very fond of purple, love soup and rarely pass up opportunities to ponder great mysteries. During Lent I am, as they say in some circles, "restless, irritable and...

Our fourth Lunchtime Examen goes online today.  This week's question is "What do our feelings have to do with prayer?" Click on the button above.