We’ve arrived at the final week of Advent. If you are following along with our Advent retreat, here is a brief reflection to begin this week. Please share your retreat experience with others here in the comments as we draw near Christmas. And remember that our retreat will continue through the Christmas season. The Fourth [...]
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Advent is the season when we remind ourselves of what we are waiting for, keeping at bay the voices which tell us that our waiting is fruitless. In one of the texts from the Office of Readings for Advent, St. Ephrem writes: Keep watch; when the body is asleep nature takes control of us, and [...]
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Welcome to the Third Week of Advent! As we continue our Advent retreat, here’s a brief reflection to start your week. Please share your retreat experience with others here throughout the week in the comments. The Third Week of Advent: Rejoice, Because the Lord Is Near! Petition: Ask for the grace to live in the [...]
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Years ago, I gave up on Advent. It was hard to maintain the Advent frame of mind (quiet longing for the coming of Christ) in the midst of the Christmas tumult, which seems to get started around Columbus Day. I remember listening to a priest one Sunday urging us to take Advent seriously by waiting [...]
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The New England Jesuits have published an excellent podcast on using the Examen in Advent. This is the second of four weekly Advent podcasts with an Ignatian flavor. Go here for details. Don’t forget the the daily Advent meditations that rotate through dotMagis and four other blogs sponsored by Loyola Press. Today’s meditation is by Paul [...]
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If you are following along with our Advent retreat, this is the place for brief reflections to jump-start your week. Please share your retreat experience with others here throughout the week in the comments. The Second Week of Advent: Prepare Yourself for the Lord’s Coming. Petition: Ask for the grace to prepare the way for [...]
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Forget childlike excitement on the night before Christmas, this adult is way more enthusiastic about celebrating four weeks of Advent. Advent is my favorite season, which is somewhat ironic because I’m not known for having much patience. I gave up baking soufflés many years ago because they required “watchful waiting.” The only houseplants I’ll buy [...]
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Desire is a key concept in Ignatian spirituality; we’ve written about it frequently on dotMagis. (See, for example, here, here, and here.) When we find out what we really want, we find out what God wants too, because God has planted his desires in our hearts. But what if we don’t desire what we think [...]
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Welcome to Advent 2010! Our Advent resources this year include the Advent retreat booklet based on the Spiritual Exercises in everyday life. Here on dotMagis each Sunday, you’ll find brief reflections to jump-start your week. Please share your retreat experience with others here throughout the week in the comments. The First Week of Advent: Journeying [...]
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Last Wednesday, we had a blizzard in Omaha and Creighton University was closed. Nine inches of snow was whipped by a ferocious wind onto roofs and in doorways. Suddenly, in the midst of my busy week, I had a day of enforced nothingness. I always dream of a day with nothing scheduled and now here, [...]
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