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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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 works on suffering. Viktor Frankl [...]
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A reflection for Wednesday in Holy Week: Salvation is not comfortable. There is something terrifying about it. Even human love is terrifying in the forces that it releases and directs; and human love is a faint radiation from the fire of love which is God. Salvation is not a gentle application of vaseline to a [...]
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A reflection for Tuesday in Holy Week: A cup must be empty before it can be filled. If it is already full, it can’t be filled again except by emptying it out. In order to fill anything, there must be a hollowed-out space. Otherwise it can’t receive. This is especially true of God’s word. In [...]
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A reflection for Holy Week: Those who really do know and love [Jesus] will . . . see the suffering of all the people whom God puts in their life world and strive with great effort to grieve with them and do whatever they can to alleviate their suffering. Right here is the deepest spiritual [...]
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St. Ignatius, writing to Jesuits in Portugal, about the problems with spiritual disciplines that he deemed excessive: The first is that God is not really served in the long run, as the horse worn out in the first days does not as a rule finish the journey, and thus it happens that someone must be [...]
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The First Little Way of Praying: Recall the commandments or any list such as the Cardinal Virtues or the Capital Sins. Take each in turn, consider the beautiful divine invitation it expresses, and ask yourself how you are living it out. Thank your Creator and Lord for all your good and beg God to make [...]
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It’s Friday and with plenty of time before sunset, I dashed over* to The Catholic Community of St. Ignatius (Baltimore) to get these: *Grateful to all who made this happen!
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