Anthony Lusvardi

Stay Away from Motives

by Jim Manney

Here’s some good advice from Anthony Lusvardi, SJ, writing on the the Whosoever Desires blog: Stay away from motives.  If you find yourself attacking somebody’s motives, you are almost certainly violating Annotation 22. Attributing presumed motives to others shifts the discussion away from the issue and onto the person—and thus shifts it away from the [...]

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The Uses of Repetitive Prayer

by Jim Manney

Anthony Lusvardi, SJ, thinks that repetitive prayer is often just what we need: While these “formal” prayers are often learned in the most mundane settings—before going to bed as children, in catechism class—once they become a part of our spiritual language they often become the prayers we fall back on in the extreme moments of [...]

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