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Challenge and the Meditation on Two Standards

A central meditation in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises is that of the Two Standards, in which retreatants are to imagine two armies on a...

Exercising with God

Sit-ups, leg lifts, and squats: how can I pray at all times when I’m supposed to be exercising? I wonder how the people in Thessalonica...

Four Ways Ignatian Spirituality Helps Us Stay on an Even Keel

We live in unsettling times; war, disease, political conflict, and even turbulent weather can feel disquieting. How can we stay on an even keel...

Eager to Reach Out and Touch Faith

I was running late for Mass. That’s not terribly uncommon in my life, as getting two little girls out the door early on a Sunday...

God’s Magnanimous Love and the Suscipe

When I first discovered Ignatian spirituality more than 15 years ago, I came to it with a deeply rooted belief that what God wanted...

Grace at Rock Bottom

When I converted to Catholicism 15 years ago, a family friend mailed me a copy of The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor with a...

Health, Memories, and the Spiritual Life

What do inflammation, memory, and spirituality have in common? Quite a bit. Inflammation is our body’s attempt to protect itself from invading pathogens. For example,...

Praying Through Loneliness

Pray as You Go offers a seven-minute reflection for any of us dealing with loneliness. In response to Isaiah 43, the prayer leader reminds...

What I Learned About God Through My Pet Bird

My bird, Charlie, died last month. Charlie was a beautiful little parrot, jam-packed with personality. Most days, my shoulder was her perch, from which she...

Prayer in the Wake of Violence

Prayer for Uvalde Recognizing that the children and teachers are with God, we at Loyola Press, in solidarity with the suffering people of Uvalde, Texas,...

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