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    The What-How-Why of Prayer

    What is Ignatian prayer? How can I pray? Why do we pray? These questions all speak to a desire to grow closer to God....

    How Does God Speak?

    How do I know God is speaking to me? It's not easy to tell, and it's hard to explain to others when it...

    Dinner Table Spirituality

    It occurred to me just a few days ago that without thinking about it, my family and I were doing a group Examen at...
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    Reflection and Our Active Lives

    By David L. Fleming, SJ From What Is Ignatian Spirituality? The goal of the spiritual life, as Ignatius conceived it, is to “choose what better leads...

    A Link Assortment

    What the deal with self-flagellation?  (There's a lively discussion in the comments.) Jim Martin, SJ, sets Glenn Beck right. Jesuits go green. Some thoughts on the Examen.

    Weekend Links

    Ann Boyd on the benefits of the Examen (“It connects my seemingly irrational emotional life with the workings of God"). An Evangelical compares the Ignatian...

    The most beautiful thing in the world

    ...is a child sleeping.  I am sometimes awed by just the feeling that rises up in me when beholding one of my daughters asleep;...
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    Lent Resources

    Lent is a season of repentance and renewal. We turn away from our sinfulness and recommit ourselves to following Jesus. Ignatian contemplation and reflective...

    Weekend Reading

    Joe Koczera, SJ on happiness. Some practical advice about the Daily Examen. Jim Martin, SJ on the patron saint of troublemakers. A Jesuit joke.

    Spiritual Direction

    I’d like to respond to Autumn’s comment to my earlier post about living the “examen”ed life. She asks about what to do when it...

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