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Four Keys to Holiday Preparation

Something to Think About Vinita Hampton Wright

1. Clean the house, but only to the extent necessary. I don’t mean scrubbing from top to bottom, like a winter form of spring cleaning,...

A Thin Place at the Library

Reflections Peggy Weber

It was a glorious fall afternoon, the kind where the leaves cling to their beauty and the air whispers that change is on the...

Pruning to Care for the Vine

Discernment Marina Berzins McCoy

Years ago, my spiritual director offered a metaphor for the season of life that I was in as a time of pruning. Back then,...

Ignatian Ministries Online Retreats and Community

Retreats dotMagis Editor

Becky Eldredge, author and founder and CEO of Ignatian Ministries, shares about her ministry of accompaniment: We are a retreat house that comes to you!...

The Audacity of Ignatian Freedom

Something to Think About Vinita Hampton Wright

St. Ignatius believed that we could become friends of God and that each of us could grow to be like Christ, who taught us...

Joy Leads to Our Next Steps

Spiritual Exercises dotMagis Editor

This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we reflect on the Resurrection...

Allowing God to Work Through Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Rebecca Ruiz

In his book, The Ignatian Adventure, Kevin O’Brien, SJ, says that contemplation, in the Ignatian sense, “is more about feeling than thinking. Contemplation often...

Accompaniment and Compassion

Spiritual Exercises dotMagis Editor

This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we meditate on the Passion...

Meditation on Two Standards

Spiritual Exercises dotMagis Editor

This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, introduces the Meditation on Two Standards from the Spiritual...