The Vatican office for the Causes of Saints has opened an official examination of the life of Walter Ciszek, SJ, to see if he should be canonized one day. Fr. Ciszek, an American Jesuit, spent 23 years as a prisoner in the Soviet Union, including 15 years of hard labor in Siberia. He secretly ministered [...]
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A volunteer searching through the archives of the New Orleans Province of the Jesuits recently discovered a rare photo of Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ, along with an American Jesuit’s remembrances of time spent with the Jesuit martyr in a Belgian hospital. John Druhan, SJ, wrote that Pro spoke American slang with a Mexican accent and [...]
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Here’s a prayer to St. Ignatius to pray on All Saints Day. When you’re finished you can pray the litany of Jesuit saints. St. Ignatius, You who helped evangelize and spread the Great Message, Who was able to refocus your life, In troublesome times for yourself, On the most important being in life. Help us [...]
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This prayer by the Jesuit saint Robert Bellarmine puts a new spin on finding God on all things: What various powers lie hidden in plants! What strange powers are found in stones, especially magnetic stones and amber. What strength do we see in animals, such as lions, bears, bulls and elephants. How clever, although tiny, [...]
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Tuesday was the Feast of Blessed Peter Favre, SJ, sometimes called “the second Jesuit” because he was especially close to Ignatius when the order was getting started. Peter was looking for direction in life when he ran into Ignatius. He was overwhelmed with choices, like a young person today: I was always very unsure of [...]
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Today is the first day of the Novena of Grace, an annual time of prayer directed to the intercession of St. Francis Xavier. This special novena has been celebrated for hundreds of years. It ends on March 12, the day that St. Francis and St. Ignatius Loyola were canonized. A Jesuit who was miraculously healed [...]
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All Saints Day will arrive in a few weeks, and if you have a taste for saints, check out our new feature on IgnatianSpirituality.com honoring Jesuit saints and blesseds. The page links to biographies of Jesuit saints (including one of my favorites, St. Roque Gonzalez) and Jesuit blesseds–all 147 of them!
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Saturday is a big day in the Ignatian calendar–it’s the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola. To mark the day, we’re giving away five copies of the book Compass Points by Margaret Silf. To have a chance to win, just leave a comment here on this post before midnight on Saturday, July 31. We’ll pick five [...]
It’s July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here at IgnatianSpirituality.com. Ignatius’s feast day is July 31. Loyola Press has assembled a collection of reflections, insights, prayers, blog posts, and article excerpts for every day of the month. Here is [...]
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