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Our Presence Is Enough
This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure.
We had only been home for a handful of hours. We were groggy...
Finding God in What Is Tender and Small This Season
In Advent, we await the second coming of Christ, and we also welcome the ways that God breaks into our lives again and again....
Luke Learns from Mary
In honor of the October 18 feast of St. Luke, let’s listen in to an imagined story by the evangelist.
It started with Mary. I...
Driving in the Fourth Week
I swore I would never get a vanity license plate. But then I did. I can’t exactly say it came from deep prayer and...
Watching Fireworks
This post is based on Week Six of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure.
Editor’s note: This article was written before we started practicing social distancing to...
Boxes by the Seaside
This parable is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure.
A man stepped out his front door and stumbled on a box. He...
My Mother’s Prayer
This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure.
Going through my mom’s prayer book after her death, I found a copy...
What Do You Really Want?
This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure.
This week provides an opportunity to delve into a very deep question: What...
Praying Through Suffering
In his book, The Ignatian Adventure, Kevin O’Brien, SJ, writes:
In the third week of the Exercises, Ignatius invites us to consider how Jesus’ divinity...
Direction
A ship may be tossed on the seas, buffeted by storms of every sort. Its crew may be struggling mightily every day simply to...