One day I was riding a subway in New York City engaging in my favorite New York pastime—people-watching. You can really study people in subways because they sit in the same place for a while and they almost always avoid eye contact. Across from me sat a Sikh man wearing an expensive suit and a [...]
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A while back, I felt deflated when I discovered that the wonderful Prayer of St. Francis (“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace”) wasn’t written by Francis at all. It was written in 1912 by a writer for a small French Catholic magazine. My disappointment wasn’t on the level of discovering the truth about [...]
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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing [...]
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Our sixth and last Lunchtime Examen goes online today. This week’s question is “What shall I do?” It’s about the final step of the traditional Ignatian examen–the action we take to love God and other people in the day ahead. Click on the button above. (Click here if you can’t see it.) These Lunchtime Examens [...]
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Our fifth Lunchtime Examen goes online today. This week’s question is “What does the Examen have to do with being honest with God?” Click on the button above. (Click here if you can’t see it.) These Lunchtime Examens will still be available on IgnatianSpirituality.com after Lent is over. We’re working out the details now.
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Our fourth Lunchtime Examen goes online today. This week’s question is “What do our feelings have to do with prayer?” Click on the button above.
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Our third Lunchtime Examen is online today. This week, in addition to the guided prayer, I talk about how the examen answers the question, “what do I pray about?” Click on the button above.
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Today is the first day of the Novena of Grace, an annual time of prayer directed to the intercession of St. Francis Xavier. This special novena has been celebrated for hundreds of years. It ends on March 12, the day that St. Francis and St. Ignatius Loyola were canonized. A Jesuit who was miraculously healed [...]
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The feast of Epiphany today brings the Christmas season to an end. To mark the day, here’s a litany called “Now the Work of Christmas Begins” composed by Howard Thurman, an African-American theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when [...]
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