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Finding God in What Is Tender and Small This Season

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

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

Ignatian Prayer Loretta Pehanich

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

Spiritual Exercises Lisa Kelly

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

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

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

Ignatian Prayer Loretta Pehanich

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

Ignatian Prayer Loretta Pehanich

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?

Discernment Fiona Basile

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

Ignatian Prayer Rebecca Ruiz

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...