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Settling into Advent
If you’re settling into Advent but looking for some seasonal inspiration to accompany your journey, there’s still time to sign up for Sacred Advent in your e-mail inbox. You...
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Beautiful Feet
There is no Ash Wednesday for Advent, no day before the first Sunday to let us know what’s coming. But the readings today, on the feast of St. Andrew,...
Examen
The Examen and Holiday Family Times
This time of year brings many family gatherings. Have you thought about how prayer—specifically the Examen—can help you appreciate, grow, or heal your relationships?
Andy Otto offers a Family Examen...
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A Spirituality of the Present Moment
An Augustinian, a Franciscan, and a Jesuit all die and go to heaven. Jesus asks each one: “If you could go back, what would you change about your life?”
The...
Ignatian Prayer
Pray for Strangers
Wyatt Massey writes for America magazine:
I sit alone on the bench, outside of a café as I wait for a friend. The lines on each passing face, the way...
Spirituality
Spiritual Friendship
The twelfth-century Cistercian monk Aelred of Rievaulx wrote a small work that has become a classic, Spiritual Friendship. It would be easy to think that the word spiritual in...