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Offers information on and experiences of Ignatian spirituality from Jesuit and Ignatian sources around the world. We cover a range of topics including, spiritual direction, exercises, prayers, Jesuit history, Ignatian songs, and social justice.
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By dotMagis Editor
In honor of the 15th anniversary of IgnatianSpirituality.com, we’re celebrating with 15 Gifts to Celebrate 15 Years! Read the details here. Gift 6 is a journal featuring quotes from First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis by Austen Ivereigh. Designed as an eight-day Ignatian retreat, First Belong to God serves as a roadmap […]
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Fr. Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, invites readers to ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Melinda LeBlanc
It was nearing the end of a weekend-long conference that, with the help of several others, I had planned and directed. Despite the fact that I was on chemo and was dealing with other health issues throughout the planning process, things seemed to be going smoothly for all involved. Organizing the weekend seemed to take […]
Click through to read the full article Wisdom from an Empty Nest, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.
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In Seeing with the Heart, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, reveals how we can ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Vinita Hampton Wright
A healthy and vital spirituality defines who we are and helps us to grow and develop along the way of faith. The way we express our spirituality should be a support and a consolation to us; it should also afford enough challenge to keep us moving forward and to help us avoid complacence. —A Faith […]
Click through to read the full article Strengthening Your Spiritual Life, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.
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In Seeing with the Heart, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, reveals how we can realize ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Loretta Pehanich
Conversations with children can cycle from hilarious to inspirational to challenging. When my son was in preschool, I told him once that I’d slept badly. He asked, “Too many hoots?” I laughed when I figured out that he was referring to owls. A friend was inspired when her son, looking at a mud puddle, said, […]
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In Seeing with the Heart, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, reveals how we ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Marina Berzins McCoy
The other morning, my husband and I were walking at the park, taking in all the sights of plants and flowers and the sounds of birdsong. A large swath of yellow buttercups filled a nearby field. My husband reminisced about how, when he was a child, kids used to pick a buttercup, place it underneath […]
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In Seeing with the Heart, Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, reveals how we can realize our true po ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Lisa Kelly
There is a scene in the movie The Shawshank Redemption in which the two main characters, both prisoners in the 1950s, debate about hope. One says that hope is the one thing no one can take away, so we don’t forget the goodness of life. The other says “hope is a dangerous thing” that can […]
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In Praying Through Pain, award-winning author and spiritual director Barbara Lee offers a simple and pract ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Eric Clayton
We are made in the image and likeness of our God who creates. It doesn’t matter if we don’t make our living writing, painting, or acting; we are inherently creative. Now, before you raise a hand in protest, I’m not saying your breakout single has to hit the top of the charts. I would simply […]
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In Praying Through Pain, award-winning author and spiritual director Barbara Lee offers a sim ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Gretchen Crowder
I am not a patient person. I like to act quickly and want everything and everyone to act just as quickly as I do. Perhaps better than any human being, Siri knows this fact about me quite well. I remember being so excited the day someone told me I could ask Siri to text my […]
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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of experiences o ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By Shemaiah Gonzalez
Once when I was a little girl, I walked by the front door to our house and noticed a shaft of light shining through the little window at the top of the door. The light stretched all the way down to the floor, where it formed a nearly perfect little square. I had never noticed […]
Click through to read the full article God in the Details, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.
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Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most poignant writings based on decades of e ..read more
Ignatian Spirituality Blog
5M ago
By dotMagis Editor
Sometimes it takes a bolt of lightning to release our creativity and kick-start the emergence of a new way of thinking or doing or being. Scientists say that it may have been like that when life first began to evolve on this planet, that violent charges from the electric storms raging above the crashing seas […]
Click through to read the full article A New Phase of Inner Growth, which appeared first on Ignatian Spirituality.
IgnatianSpirituality.com ® is a service of Loyola Press, a Jesuit ministry.
Forgive Everyone Everything is a powerful collection of Gregory Boyle’s most ..read more