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Freedom in the Midst of Suffering: The Meaning of the Passion

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By Paul Coutinho From How Big Is Your God? The Freedom to Experience the Divine Anyone who goes through St. Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises begins with the...

Contemplation on the Incarnation Part Two: Mary’s Human Response

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By Daniel Ruff, SJ A recurring pattern in the Spiritual Exercises has St. Ignatius starting the retreatant off praying at the “cosmic” level, and then...

Contemplation on the Incarnation Part One: The Trinity Looks Down from Heaven

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By Daniel Ruff, SJ The lion's share of the Spiritual Exercises, perhaps two-thirds, is given over to imaginative contemplation of Gospel episodes from the life...

Learning to Live Reverently

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By Gerald M. Fagin, SJ From Putting on the Heart of Christ: How the Spiritual Exercises Invite Us to a Virtuous Life Reverence is a virtue...

Why Do We Pray?

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By William A. Barry, SJ From God's Passionate Desire Why do we pray? Do we pray for utilitarian reasons—because it benefits our physical or psychological health? Honesty...

Links for the Weekend

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Jim Martin, SJ, on sexual abuse and the Sacred Heart. How the St. Louis Jesuits changed liturgical music. (“One person credits them with wrecking the...

Visits with My Mother

Reflections Maureen McCann Waldron

In the US on Sunday, we will celebrate Mother's Day. I have been thinking of my mother a lot lately, maybe because this is...

Mary at Her Annunciation as a Model for Growing in the Virtue of Faith

By Gerald M. Fagin, SJ From Putting on the Heart of Christ: How the Spiritual Exercises Invite Us to a Virtuous Life Mary at her Annunciation...

Consciousness Examen

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By George Aschenbrenner, SJ From Consciousness Examen, part of the Somos Católicos series Examen is a practice without much significance for many people in their spiritual...