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

dotMagis Editor

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

dotMagis Editor

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...

Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of...

Contemplation on the Love of God

The Contemplation on the Love of God is the concluding meditation of the Spiritual Exercises (Spiritual Exercises, 231–237). It presents a God who loves...

Prayer of an Aging Disciple

Ignatian Prayer dotMagis Editor

Lord, grant me the grace to live in the present and recognize what is possible to look to the future and trust you to be silent, and...

Cleaning Out the Interior Closet

Reflections Gretchen Crowder

I asked my boys to go get dressed for their dentist appointments. “Put on something that doesn’t look like you’ve been sleeping in it...

Discernment Twists and Turns

Discernment Eric Clayton

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re hosting 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian...

Four Ignatian Tools to Rely On Whenever I Am Lost

Spirituality Gretchen Crowder

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re hosting 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian...