What do you like about Ignatius and Ignatian spirituality? Here’s a sampling of some responses here and on our Ignatian Spirituality page on Facebook. Add your own reflections in the comments. Carol Voss: The freedom to explore and stretch the talents I have been given all AMDG, the knowledge that something is NOT just my [...]
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Something to think about | We are challenged by Ignatius in much the same way that he was challenged by Francis and Dominic. And that may be the best purpose for books of saints: to have our complacency and mediocrity goaded, and to highlight our lame urge to go forward with the familiar rather than [...]
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Trust is very much a central feature of Ignatian spirituality, just as it was for Luther. Trust became a focal point for Luther out of his reading of St. Paul. It became a focus for Ignatius out of his reading of Gospel stories, for there he encountered a Jesus who had nowhere to lay his [...]
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Pedro Ribadaneira, one of the first Jesuits, describes Ignatius: “We frequently saw him taking the occasion of little things to lift his mind to God, who even in the smallest things is great. From seeing a plant, foliage, a leaf, a flower, any kind of fruit; from the consideration of a little worm or any [...]
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Ignatius was always dealing with polarities: the divine and the human, the individual person and the corporate body, mission and community, spirit and law, charism and institution, the universal and the local, and so forth. The temptation or easy option, when faced with such polarities, is to choose one over the other. Such an either-or [...]
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Let’s take a moment in IgnatiusFest to think about the men who first followed Ignatius. We wouldn’t be here without Ignatius, but we wouldn’t be here without the first companions either. They were a handful of students who met Ignatius at the University of Paris. They made the bold decision to join their lives together [...]
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This is a guest post by Gary Smith, SJ. He was short; I’m tall; he grew up in a castle; I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He spent years in Rome; I’ve never been there. He was a mystic; I’m not. But his vision of the Holy took me by force; [...]
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Ron Hansen on Ignatius’s accomplishments: We are apt to look at Ignatius’s life as one of harsh discipline and privation, and find only loss in his giving up of family, inheritance, financial security, prestige, luxury, sexual pleasure. But he looked at his life as an offering to the God he called liberalidad, freedom, and God [...]
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During July we’d like to hear from from you about what Ignatius means to you. To get things started, here are some thoughts about a well-known incident in the saint’s life. Please weigh in. Put your reflections in the comments. Shortly after his conversion, the ex-soldier and courtier Ignatius was riding down a dusty road [...]
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Today is July 1, the first day of our celebration of 31 Days with St. Ignatius at IgnatianSpirituality.com. Go to our calendar and click on the link for today. The long July 4th weekend begins today for US readers. Follow the calendar if you can. If you can’t, catch up on Tuesday. If you’re moved [...]
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