Spiritual Exercises
Accompanying Jesus in His Passion and Death
Kevin O'Brien, SJ, explains that the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises is an extended meditation on the passion, suffering, and death of Jesus Christ. This week can be...
Spiritual Exercises
Kevin O’Brien, SJ, on the Two Standards
A key meditation of the Spiritual Exercises is the meditation on the Two Standards. At this point in the Exercises we've reckoned with both our hopes and our failings;...
Spiritual Exercises
Kevin O’Brien, SJ, on the Call of Christ the King
One of the central meditations of the Spiritual Exercises is the Call of Christ the King.
Imagine a call from an earthly leader who has inspired us, and then imagine...
Poetry
The God of My Beginning and End
Another prayer from The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ. This time it is by Karl Rahner, SJ .
I should like to speak with you, my God,
and yet what...
Something to Think About
Grace Requires Effort
Something to think about | The infinite vistas of the Kingdom of God that open up before man are not presented as ways for man to escape his lot,...
Something to Think About
Everything Is Changed
Something to think about | When a man feels condemned, his creativity and his power to love, his joy in life as well as his sense of wholeness are...