What the deal with self-flagellation? (There’s a lively discussion in the comments.)
Jim Martin, SJ, sets Glenn Beck right.
Jesuits go green.
Some thoughts on the Examen.
Paul Coutinho, SJ, on forgiveness in Lent.
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Ignatius Loyola strides through the snow at the Jesuit Retreat House in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Photo by the Law and Gospel blogger. Go here for more on Ignatian retreats.
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Jack Mahoney, SJ, suggests we review our Lenten program. But be careful: “What we should avoid is the almost magical or superstitious feeling that whatever we do in religion must be done completely and meticulously, like completing a novena or an indulgence or a chain prayer. For one thing, the Lord may have made it [...]
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Fr. Jim Martin has just published a new book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. It’s an in-depth, witty, and very readable account of Ignatian spirituality, aimed at both believers and seekers. It includes chapters on desire and the spiritual life, prayer, decision making, and being contemplatives in action. Browse the contents here at the [...]
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Today is the traditional beginning of the Novena of Grace in honor of St. Francis Xavier, a nine-day devotion that has been popular for centuries. The first Novena of Grace dates back to 1634, when the intercession of St. Francis obtained the miraculous cure of another Jesuit. The novena ends on March 12, the date [...]
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I was inspired by this video by Greg Pierce, a Chicago businessman who is a gifted speaker and writer. Here is the YouTube link.
This video is part of an online Lenten retreat that is underway at the Days of Deepening Friendship website. Pierce has just published a new book The World as it Should Be: [...]
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This Lent, says Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, take the time to “bother.” He points out that the people who angered Jesus were people like the two guys who ignored the wounded man in the parable of the Good Samaritan. These are people who didn’t bother to love. He goes on:
So this Lent, instead of fasting, [...]
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Anthony Lusvardi, SJ, thinks that repetitive prayer is often just what we need:
While these “formal” prayers are often learned in the most mundane settings—before going to bed as children, in catechism class—once they become a part of our spiritual language they often become the prayers we fall back on in the extreme moments of our [...]
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The Spiritual Exercises are “a crash program for centering our hearts on God,” said Anthony de Mello, the famed Jesuit psychotherapist and spiritual director who died in 1987. De Mello said this in 1975 in a series of talks on the Exercises that he gave to small group of Jesuit spiritual directors. These talks were [...]
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