Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee is a practicing spiritual director who lives in New York City. She is a retired attorney, a former U.S. magistrate judge, and a long-serving member of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps. She is the author of God Isn’t Finished with Me Yet: Discovering the Spiritual Graces of Later Life, Answering God's Call, and Praying Through Pain.
Books by Barbara Lee

Barbara's Books

  • God Isn't Finished with Me Yet
  • Answering God's Call
  • Praying Through Pain

“I Have Seen the Lord!”

This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Mary of Magdala visited the tomb of Jesus early in the morning and came back distraught, weeping, with...

Light out of Darkness

This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In Jerusalem, a short walk from the Garden of Gethsemane, is the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu...

After the Fever, Service

This post is based on Week Six of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. It’s the Sabbath. Jesus must surely have been looking forward to a peaceful Sabbath meal at Simon Peter’s...

Who, Me?

This post is based on Week Five of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. The Gospel stories of the call of the first disciples are often cited as models of the call...

Who Do You Say That I Am?

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. When I was first introduced to Ignatian spirituality more than 40 years ago, I had to answer the...

Facing Up to Sin

This post is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. When I was introduced to Ignatian spirituality through the “Retreat in Daily Life” (the 19th Annotation), the hardest...