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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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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We’re reflecting on freedom in this first week of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Ignatius has a radical view of spiritual freedom. He says that to be truly free, we shouldn’t worry about whether we are healthy or sick, rich or poor. It shouldn’t even matter whether we have a long life or a short one. Is [...]
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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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Joseph Tetlow, SJ, says that he had to learn to listen, as Ignatius did. I had to learn about others’ needs. Some need solid instruction. Some need a way to reform a life that has gone bad. Some need to hear what God wants with their whole lives. You find, when you listen to enough [...]
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Anyone interested in the Spiritual Exercises should read Fr. Kevin O’Brien’s book The Ignatian Adventure. He talks about why he wrote the book in this short interview with Vinita Hampton Wright. (Click here to watch it on YouTube.)
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The meditation on the Two Standards is one of the key moments in the Spiritual Exercises. We’re invited to imagine two armies on a battlefield. One under Satan’s standard; the other under Christ’s. Each army operates in completely different ways with sharply contrasting values. What Christ thinks is important is humility and poverty. Roger Dawson, SJ, [...]
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Here’s some good advice from Anthony Lusvardi, SJ, writing on the the Whosoever Desires blog: Stay away from motives. If you find yourself attacking somebody’s motives, you are almost certainly violating Annotation 22. Attributing presumed motives to others shifts the discussion away from the issue and onto the person—and thus shifts it away from the [...]
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The great river of Ignatian spirituality flows from The Spiritual Exercises, the guided conversion experience developed by St. Ignatius Loyola. Most of the time Ignatius gave the Exercises as a silent retreat of about 30 days, and for centuries that was the way most spiritual directors offered them. That’s changed in recent years. Most people [...]
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