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Something to think about | Often we tell ourselves, or we are told, in an effort to quell our desires, to look at all the good we already have. We can be made to feel guilty and ungrateful for desiring what we want. But if we do suppress our desires without being satisfied that God [...]
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Could you live your everyday life in just six pieces of clothing? It is the question behind a website called “Six Items or Less.” In the trans-Atlantic experiment, people around the world volunteered to choose six items of clothing and wear only those six things for a month, at work and at home. That’s it. [...]
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George Anderson, SJ, often prays this lovely prayer by St. Theresa of Avila on his morning subway ride: “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Nothing is wanting to the one who possesses God. God alone suffices.” Read his reflection on praying on [...]
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At “This Ignatian Life,” Megan Bensley has a lovely post about praying in everyday life. She remembers the times in the past month when she intentionally turned to God: Laying in bed after the alarm went off, in the shower, on the subway, at PETCO, after I tripped but saved myself from falling, watching my [...]
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The image of Moses waiting patiently upon Mount Sinai to see the “hind parts” of God as the Divine Majesty passed by is a lovely metaphor for how to understand prayer. Skeptics will claim that prayer does nothing; you don’t always get what you pray for, and the best it can do is make you [...]
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The other day I came across a passage in a novel that brought me up short. The book is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The writer describes the thoughts of a nine-year-old boy: “His father always talked to him—so he felt—as if he were addressing some imaginary boy, one of those that exist in books, [...]
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I was struck by the post here last week “Solitude in a World of iPad Apps” about an article by Fr. Jim Martin, SJ. On the day it was posted here, I was ending an 8 day silent retreat at the Jesuit Retreat House in Colorado. When I first arrived on retreat, I followed my [...]
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Something to think about | A cup must be empty before it can be filled. If it is already full, it can’t be filled again except by emptying it out. In order to fill anything, there must be a hollowed-out space. Otherwise it can’t receive. This is especially true of God’s word. In order to [...]
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I assume that everyone reading this is immersed in the “always on” world of the web, blogs, iPods, email, smart phones, iPads, and other devices. Pay heed to Fr. Jim Martin’s plea to disconnect every once in a while: Sometimes it seems as if we can no longer stand to be alone or be “out [...]
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Paul Campbell, SJ, talks about his personal prayer practices. (“The most important thing I do is to see a spiritual director.”) Jim Martin, SJ, on sexual abuse and the Sacred Heart. How the St. Louis Jesuits changed liturgical music. (“One person credits them with wrecking the liturgy and the next person credits them with saving [...]
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