If the worst happens, and the fog gets so thick that you really can’t move an inch, try using these tactics: Tell God, and maybe a human friend, how you feel, and ask them to pry you away from the negative force fields, even though you really want to stay where you are, in isolation. [...]
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Two things, says Katie, who went on a Charis Ministries retreat a few months ago. (Click here if you can’t see the video.) Share or bookmark this post:
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Ignatian blogger Becky Eldredge says it’s a phrase coined by her friend Bob Fitzgerald. It’s a life experience where there was both grief and joy. It is a life situation where we experience pain, challenges, hurt, and grief. At the same time, we come out of the experience in way that we treasure the experience [...]
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The decisive moment in Ignatius’s life came when he realized that he was imitating the wrong person. He realized that imitating the example of a noble knight could not satisfy him, and that he had a deep desire to imitate the saints. He had once been satisfied to imitate the knight, with all the social [...]
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The columnist and author David Brooks reports on a recent academic conference on the subject of humility. I was struck by the parallels between the findings of social scientists and the insights of Ignatian spirituality. Some examples: June Tangney of George Mason University emphasized that humility is not equivalent to low self-esteem. Rather, the humble [...]
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Some ideas for moving forward, from Margaret Silf: Tell God, and maybe a human friend, how you feel, and ask them to pry you away from the negative force fields, even though you really want to stay where you are, in isolation. Force yourself to make contact with other people; go to town, walk around [...]
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It takes a great deal of slow, careful, thoughtful work to learn a language. First there must be the example of someone fluent in that language who acts as a model. Next, there must be careful listening, repeating of sounds that are foreign; memorizing words and their unfamiliar nuances. Over time one builds small sentences [...]
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dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to “a global dialogue about religion and spirituality.” It’s full of interesting stuff. This week Tim writes about the royal wedding and the beatification of Pope John Paul II, concluding thusly: In our information age, noble ideas [...]
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The third presentation in our Ignatian Way series is now up and running. It’s about finding God in all things–the signature theme of Ignatian spirituality, in my opinion. The first two slide shows are about Ignatian prayer and an overview of Ignatian spirituality. Six more are in the works. Let us know what you think [...]
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A reflection for Holy Thursday: As a preface to his declaration about the Incarnation in Philippians, St. Paul said, “The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had.” Wisdom is making peace with the unchangeable. We have the freedom to face the unavoidable with dignity, to understand the transformational value that attitude [...]
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