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Advent Retreat 2011: The First Week of Advent

Jim Manney

Welcome to Advent 2011! Our Advent resources this year include the Advent retreat booklet based on the Spiritual Exercises in everyday life. Here on...

Helps for Observing Advent

Jim Manney

Advent begins on Sunday. You might want to look at some of the very helpful material the team at Loyola Press has put together...

Young Adult and Layman

Becky Eldredge

One of my greatest joys in life is journeying with those in their 20s and 30s in my work with Charis Ministries, and even...

Meet Becky Eldredge

Jim Manney

Our newest blogger here at dotMagis is Becky Eldredge, a writer, speaker, and spiritual director in training who lives in Athens, GA, with her...

Ignatian Adventure

Jim Manney

Anyone interested in the Spiritual Exercises should read Fr. Kevin O'Brien's book The Ignatian Adventure. He talks about why he wrote the book in...

Day's Letter to an Agnostic

Tim Muldoon

Dorothy Day's 1934 Letter to an Agnostic is republished in this week's America Magazine. In it, she writes about her own struggles with belief and...

Martha at Rest

Maureen McCann Waldron

When we hear the story of Martha and Mary, the sisters who were such close friends of Jesus', we most likely know which one...

Some Definite Service

Paul Brian Campbell, SJ

I've already mentioned The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ. Sprinkled throughout are prayers and poems. I really liked this one from John Henry Cardinal...

Why Edgar Allen Poe Liked the Jesuits

Jim Manney

Church historian Pat McNamara writes about how the Jesuits at St. John's College (later Fordham University) befriended Edgar Allen Poe in the last years...