The CatholicTV website is offering 10 short videos about prayer featuring Fr. Jim Martin, SJ. He talks about centering prayer, nature prayer, the rosary, eucharistic adoration and other ways of praying. You’ll find all 10 videos here. This is his piece on the examen. (If you can’t see the video, click here.)
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Over the weekend, I went to Petsmart and brought home a new betta, in part because the betta that survived last month’s move from Princeton to Baltimore seemed lonely. I know I’m not making this up because he has been building big bubble nests, much bigger than the bubble nests he built right after the [...]
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The Jesuit theologian Walter Burghardt once described contemplation as “a long, loving look at the real.” As I understand him, he meant that to the extent that we behold the world as God has made it, come to see its contours designed lovingly by a loving creator, we become aware of the presence of the [...]
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Ignatian spirituality owes a great debt to Aristotle. Not a surprise, really–Ignatius absorbed the theology of Thomas Aquinas, who imbibed the philosophy of Aristotle (by way of his teacher, Albert the Great, and in conversation with Muslim and Jewish philosophers, who had been using Aristotle for centuries). Here’s my thumbnail sketch; it’s on my mind [...]
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Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of the gospels, and immerse yourself in it imaginatively using all the senses. You feel the heat of the day, smell the livestock and clouds of dust on the road, [...]
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