Note: I jotted this down in real time last Friday evening and didn’t get around to posting it. Another week has passed with a new set of stresses and demands. May I be graced with the energy to get myself to Vespers tonight. I feel like going to Mass this evening and am marveling, a [...]
{ 9 comments }
The most basic spiritual practice is learning silence. Practicing silence is an act of faith precisely because one cannot know for certain that anything is to be gained from it. It might be a waste of that most precious commodity: time. What the Christian spiritual tradition teaches us, though, is that the practice of silence [...]
{ 0 comments }
At every moment of my life I have two options. If I allow it, God will form my heart more and more in the image of his Son. I will act in faith to let God lead me into an unknown place, a place that I cannot know and cannot guarantee I will fully understand [...]
{ 7 comments }
One of the very best lines I’ve heard about love came from the wise mouths of Zhang Mucheng (101 years old) and Xu Dongying, (102) of Shanghai, celebrating 80 years of marriage together. When asked about love, they said “We are not used to kissing and hugging…we just feel good when we are together.” And [...]
{ 0 comments }
I thought that the “Almost” in Fr. Jim Martin’s The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything was only a clever word in catchy title, but it turns out that the book really doesn’t cover everything. The author had to drop a whole section on some of his Jesuit heroes for space reasons (St.Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Jean [...]
{ 2 comments }
Smarla Angtuaco, a recent graduate of Anteneo de Manila University has had enough of pet peeves. In two blog posts, she lists her “15 Pet Perks of Ignatian Spirituality.” Part 1 is here; part 2 is here. Smarla’s list is a very personal and contains some surprising items. Which leads me to ask, “what aspects [...]
{ 3 comments }
I mentioned the term “God’s project” in my last post, referencing a term I first encountered in an essay by Joseph Tetlow, SJ. I think it’s an idea worth considering further. Looking at the world as God’s project has some powerful implications. For example: 1. It emphasizes the radical human freedom with which God has [...]
{ 3 comments }
Here’s where I saw God yesterday. How about you?
{ 2 comments }
Though I have not yet seen the exhibit “The Wanderer,” by Enrique Martínez Celaya, (at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York) I am fascinated by its description: The exhibition explores Martínez Celaya’s immersion in a Western literary tradition rich in themes and imagery that project a deeply private existential odyssey. The Wanderer presents [...]
{ 1 comment }
A friend sent me the link to a series of excellent “conversations” about Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises led by Howard Gray, SJ, an esteemed theologian and spiritual director. They are eight talks at John Carroll University several years ago. They focus on modern writers, most of them Jesuits, who have interpreted the Spiritual Exercises [...]
{ 3 comments }
Sign up for dotMagis updates in an RSS reader
Sign up for dotMagis updates by e-mail