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    Forget childlike excitement on the night before Christmas, this adult is way more enthusiastic about celebrating four weeks of Advent. Advent is my favorite season, which is somewhat ironic because I'm not known for having much patience. I gave up...
    Desire is a key concept in Ignatian spirituality; we've written about it frequently on dotMagis. (See, for example, here, here, and here.) When we find out what we really want, we find out what God wants too, because God...
    Gary Smith, SJ, on Sudanese refugee mothers: "I have known and wept with and consoled the Sudanese refugee woman, particularly as she is a mother. When you know her as a mother, you understand how she can age so quickly....
    Welcome to Advent 2010! Our Advent resources this year include the Advent retreat booklet based on the Spiritual Exercises in everyday life. Here on dotMagis each Sunday, you'll find brief reflections to jump-start your week. Please share your retreat...
    One of the very best lines I've heard about love came from the wise mouths of Zhang Mucheng (101 years old) and Xu Dongying, (102) of Shanghai, celebrating 80 years of marriage together. When asked about love, they said...
    Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown,...
    "What would you like to save on today?"  I was wandering through an online store and noticed how this question kept appearing adjacent to the site's search prompt. What would I like to save on? Psycho-spiritual wear and tear came...
    It was a moment of grace on a Sunday afternoon.  My husband, Jim, and I were walking through the crowd into a Creighton U basketball game.  In the middle of the throng on the sidewalk ahead of us, we...
    Authors are all over YouTube talking about their books.  This interview with Bert Ghezzi about his book Voices of the Saints is one of the best author videos I've ever seen.  The book is a terrifically informative and entertaining...
    Smarla Angtuaco, a recent graduate of Anteneo de Manila University has had enough of pet peeves.  In two blog posts, she lists her "15 Pet Perks of Ignatian Spirituality." Part 1 is here; part 2 is here.  Smarla's list...

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