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The Contemplation on the Incarnation and Advent

Becky Eldredge

The Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises begins with a Contemplation on the Incarnation (SE 101–109). The graces we pray for with this meditation...

A Truth-Telling Thanksgiving Prayer

Rebecca Ruiz

St. Ignatius urged his followers to converse with Jesus in the same way that one would speak with a very dear friend. In his...

A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

Vinita Hampton Wright

Thanksgiving will be different this year. As I write this, in early November, the United States is experiencing a new and frightening spike in...

Cobwebs and Cataracts

Loretta Pehanich

Joan had cataract surgery. Overnight she developed all kinds of wrinkles. Well, actually, she simply hadn’t seen them before. With her eyesight improved, looking...

Nurturing Gratitude

dotMagis Editor

“Nurturing gratitude makes us happy,” says Spiritual Practices for the Brain author Anne Kertz Kernion in this brief video on gratitude. How do you...

Permission to Notice

Shemaiah Gonzalez

When I was in Kindergarten, I took the school bus home. The driver dropped me off three blocks away from my house. Since my...

From a Mountain of Trash to Beauty

Marina Berzins McCoy

This morning, my husband, John, and I took a lap around the paved loop that tops a city park not far from where we...

Cherishing Meeting Participants

Tim Muldoon

“Cherish what is simple. Be in awe of what is great.” —Christopher de Vinck in The Center Will Hold I am sitting in the usual...

St. Ignatius’s Model of Contemplative Leadership

Becky Eldredge

St. Ignatius Loyola offers us a model of contemplative leadership, as shown in the following ten characteristics of leaders. Contemplative leaders… See the real. Ignatius invites...