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...

After all these years, I should stop being so surprised by the moaning and groaning that accompanies shifting from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. Me? I get happier as days get darker earlier and  not because I have the...

Two Saturdays ago  the Opera Company of Philadelphia and hundreds of local choristers sang the Halleljuah Chorus from Handel's Messiah at Macy's.  This video of the event is great fun.  Click here if you can't see the video.  (H/T...

What does it mean to be really, really lost? My husband, Jim, the kind of person who always stops to help people, saw a distraught looking woman in the park last weekend. Dressed in African dress and...

After sending the seventy disciples out to preach, Jesus listened to what they had to say upon their return.  They recounted many wonders, to which Jesus replied "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!  For I tell...

Today we launch The Ignatian Way, a series of online multimedia slide presentations on the main themes of Ignatian spirituality. They are based on work by Brian Grogan, SJ, and his Irish Jesuit colleagues. Each show is 10...

Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, has an excellent reflection for All Saints Day on The Huffington Post, titled "The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were." Jim is the author of...

What for years seemed like extreme cruelty, now impresses me as heroic parenting. The parent in this case was my mother who, back in the 1950s, thought the Three Stooges were too violent, carrot and celery sticks were excellent snacks,...

What does Halloween mean? Why does All Saints Day follow the next day? Jim Martin, SJ, explains it all. 

The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on emotion and feeling which are the windows to our souls but which windows we males...