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Spirituality
Back in my coaching days I learned to develop a particular kind of vision: I saw details of my athletes’ performance that others would miss. This one slouched a bit; that one overreached; and so on. The vision was the product of careful, attentive, even loving work. What others saw was just a boat full [...]
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Two Jesuit astronomers talk about “Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God” on NPR. Richard Blake, SJ, on his vocation. (“I knew I wanted to be a priest maybe four or five years after I was ordained.”) Brian O’Leary, SJ, on the search for meaning from an Ignatian perspective. Find God at Other6 (if you [...]
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This topic came up in class this evening, and it gets better as I continue to think about it. Here’s the thumbnail: the young Ignatius went to Jerusalem to imitate Saint Francis, wanting to walk in Christ’s footsteps and convert Muslims. But after he got there, the local priests sent him packing, and he was [...]
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It occurred to me just a few days ago that without thinking about it, my family and I were doing a group Examen at our dinner table. I don’t know why it took me so long to recognize this fact, but now it’s obvious to me that one of the very important reasons families and [...]
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“There really is an appetite for God and for his righteousness. We all too easily speak and think as if righteousness resulted chiefly from the curbing of our appetites, as if our appetites were only for sin. But strictly speaking we have no appetite for sin. What we experience as an appetite for sin is [...]
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The top 10 moments in the history of Jesuit postseason basketball. (Two of them involve Al McGuire.) NBC News profiles a remarkable community service program at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Paul Lickteig, SJ, has some questions about Jesus. (Did he ever forget what he was supposed to do?) Michael Magree’s favorite sad songs [...]
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There were two stone masons, each doing the same job. The first, a melancholy man, was asked what he was doing. “I lay stones,” he replied, looking sullen. “Every day, stones and mortar. No difference from one day to the next. I lay stones, I get paid.” His was a dreary life. His colleague was [...]
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Writing on Busted Halo, Jim Martin, SJ, makes the argument for embracing religious tradition: We all tend to think that we’re correct about most things, and spirituality is no exception. And not belonging to a religious community means less of a chance of being challenged by a tradition of belief and experience, less chance to [...]
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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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