Our newest blogger here at dotMagis is Becky Eldredge, a writer, speaker, and spiritual director in training who lives in Athens, GA, with her husband and two children. Becky has been active in ministry for 14 years, primarily in retreat work and adult faith formation. She is currently the coordinator of the Partner Program at [...]
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Our sister blog Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. The blog has featured images of nature, people, objects, and places, all evoking God’s presence. I love it. Many of the pictures are extraordinary. It’s a daily way to experience finding God in all things. To celebrate, Loyola Press is [...]
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My friend Vinita Wright is having a great time with her re-launched blog Days of Deepening Friendship. The theme of DDF is “women growing wiser.” Vinita is building a lively online community with discussions of the spiritual issues women face as they move through life’s natural seasons. Here’s what she said this week about those [...]
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Yesterday the Loyola Press 3-Minute Retreat received its 10,000th “like” on Facebook. Try it if you’re looking for a good way to pray in the spirit of Ignatius. Here’s what Elizabeth Cruz in the Philippines says about it: Visiting your website and religiously doing the 3 minute retreat refreshes me and an awesome experience to [...]
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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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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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Yesterday the Ignatian Spirituality page on Facebook passed a milestone when it received its 10,000th “like.” That’s a nice big round number–something to celebrate. God is found in all things. In the wired up, interconnected, always-on digital world of the 21st century, the Ignatian Spirituality Facebook page is a place where lots of people are [...]
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I have a cell phone that isn’t very smart. You might say it’s barely sentient. I use it for texting and phone calls, occasionally as an alarm clock. Articles like Jack McLain’s list of favorite Catholic apps in America make me want to upgrade to a smart phone. One of his favorites is the Three-Minute [...]
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Notable Comments
by Jim Manney
I thought I would highlight several of the comments that readers have made on this blog lately. Nino said this about my post about St. Mark Ji Tianxiang, a Chinese layman and drug addict who was martyred in 1900: This also reminds me of St. Andrew Wouters, one of the martyrs of Gorkum (who’s feast [...]
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