A friend of mine sent me this piece in the Washington Post written several years ago by William Blazek, SJ.  It's the account of a ride one morning on the DC Metro--a delightful example of finding God in all...

My Ignatian song pick this week pays homage to one of the greatest songwriters. He's Bob Dylan, and the song is the haunting and enigmatic classic "All Along the Watchtower." Dylan wrote it and performed it in the sixties,...

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At his People for Others blog (now no longer online), my friend Paul Campbell has trouble coming up with “five fun facts” about Ignatius Loyola. One of them is the fact that Ignatius was hauled up several times before...

About 280 men are currently in Jesuit formation in the United States.  The Jesuits are praying for more.  Being good disciples of Ignatius Loyola, they are also working to encourage vocations as well as praying for them.  An article...

Ignatius Loyola experienced a profound mystical vision on the banks of the Cardoner river in northern Spain.  He did not describe it any detail.  He merely remarked in his autobiography that he learned more about God in the brief...

The Ignatian phrase "Finding God in All Things" is like the mysterious verse of St. Paul's: "pray without ceasing" (followed immediately in 1 Thessalonians by "In all circumstances give thanks"). You ask, "how is that possible?" and "what does that...

Christ is at the center of Ignatian spirituality. Much of the Spiritual Exercises consists of meditations on the gospel accounts of the life of Jesus. The first of these is a meditation on Jesus' birth. In...

I wasn't surprised to find out that the poet Billy Collins is a Jesuit alum (Holy Cross '63).  There's a distinctly Ignatian tone in this quote: "I feel now that my sense of the spiritual is directly connected to...

The List is a weekly feature highlighting something remarkable, offbeat, or otherwise noteworthy from the world of the Jesuits and Ignatian spirituality.Digital technology may not change the content of prayer, but it sure has expanded the forms of prayer....