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Challenge and the Meditation on Two Standards

Tim Muldoon

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

Loretta Pehanich

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

Marina Berzins McCoy

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

Eric Clayton

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

Gretchen Crowder

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

Shemaiah Gonzalez

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

Gary Jansen

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

dotMagis Editor

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

Rebecca Ruiz

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...

The Homeboy Way: A Webinar with CEO Thomas Vozzo

dotMagis Editor

As CEO of Homeboy Industries, the most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the country, Thomas Vozzo has learned that a radical...

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