Matt Spotts, SJ, went to confession. Here’s his penance: “For the rest of Lent, take 5 minutes every day – just 5 minutes – and just enjoy God.” Let’s all do that.
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Ignatian Prayer
Our online retreat continues with Week 4 of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure ready today. We’re moving into the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises and begin by contemplating the Incarnation and the birth of Jesus. If you’re just coming to the retreat, welcome. You can start the retreat back at Week 1, or follow along [...]
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An Ignatian Prayer Adventure continues with Week 3 materials ready today. Our theme is “Something’s Broken,” and we consider the effects of sin in the world and in our lives. The aim is not to dwell in guilt and despair. As Kevin O’Brien, SJ, writes: We don’t get very far just by counting our sins [...]
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A while back, I felt deflated when I discovered that the wonderful Prayer of St. Francis (“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace”) wasn’t written by Francis at all. It was written in 1912 by a writer for a small French Catholic magazine. My disappointment wasn’t on the level of discovering the truth about [...]
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As I write this post, my inbox is filling up with e-mails due to a dialogue with family members about various faith topics. What is unique about this e-mail chain is that my family is full of ordained ministers of different denominations (Anglican, Presbyterian, and Baptist). In the middle of all of these ministers, I [...]
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Week 2 of our Ignatian Prayer Adventure retreat begins today. The theme of the week is “Finding God in All Things.” Don’t worry if you haven’t done Week 1. You can start the retreat now. Or you can just stop by on the days when you have the time. Each day has a grace to [...]
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An Ignatian Prayer Adventure begins today. Our focus for this first week of the retreat is “Love, Freedom, and Purpose.” We’ll consider questions such as: Who is God for me? How does God see me? When have I experienced interior freedom? and How do I praise, love, and serve God? Visit People for Others and [...]
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What are you doing for Lent? Am I the first to ask? Ash Wednesday is only two weeks from today–a date I’ve been keenly aware of because I’ve been very busy lately putting together our Ignatian Prayer Adventure. This is an eight-week online retreat that can be completed during Lent and Easter. It’s a version of [...]
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Something to think about | Prayer is time taken out of the linear journey of our days, and it is also our most profound reality. When we pray, we move inward to our God center. Then we move out again. . . to our situation in the world. This movement into the center and out [...]
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This week we are republishing some of the most popular posts from dotMagis. 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 [...]
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