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My Beloved

Ignatian Prayer Loretta Pehanich

My fingers brush the holy water as I enter the church. I’m here for a Gospel meditation, and I linger, imagining the Jordan. Was...

Questions to Ask in Contemplating the Nativity

Ignatian Prayer Rebecca Ruiz

Ignatian contemplation allows the Spirit to bring to light important aspects of the Gospel that inform us along our spiritual journeys. This year, my...

Contemplating the Nativity

Ignatian Prayer Rebecca Ruiz

Every year, as Advent and Christmas roll around, I return to the contemplation on the Nativity in the Spiritual Exercises. In this contemplation, St....

Listening for God Through Our Imaginations

Ignatian Prayer Becky Eldredge

It never ceases to amaze me the abundant number of ways God speaks to us. I still remember the surprise of learning that not...

Taking Off My Shoes

Reflections Tim Muldoon

“Nor can foot feel, being shod” This line from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur” is a commentary on what the poet saw as one...

The Dark Night of Seeds

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

One of Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom of God depicts us as various types of soil into which the sower plants seeds. I found...

Cardoner Vision

St. Ignatius Loyola dotMagis Editor

In 1522, not long after his conversion, Ignatius sat praying on the bank of the Cardoner River near the village of Manresa in northern...

Holiness, the Beatitudes, and Discernment

Spirituality Tim Muldoon

Pope Francis has released his latest apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad). The title comes from the Beatitudes in Matthew’s Gospel, specifically,...