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Mama Antula Beatified
Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, better known as “Mama Antula,” was beatified in Argentina August 27, 2016. The 18th-century laywoman spread the Spiritual Exercises after the Jesuits were expelled...
Ignatian Voices
Why Celebrate Labor Day
Joe Simmons, SJ, shares 32 Reasons to Celebrate Labor Day. Read the entire list over at The Jesuit Post, but here’s a sampling to get us thinking this holiday.
Labor...
Spiritual Exercises
The Ignatian Take on the Christian Journey
The Exercises represent a kind of spiritual journey, as they invite the one who makes them to consider the foundational truths of Christian life: creation as an act of...
Ignatian Prayer
The Brain, Silly Putty, and Prayer
After reading a scientific essay about the brain, Jim McDermott writes in America:
Because here’s the other crazy-cool thing about the brain: it’s like Silly Putty. It remains flexible throughout...
Web Community
Finding God in Church Events
At the start of each week, we invite our Ignatian Spirituality Facebook community to share where they have found God in the last few days. This weekend brought some...
Ignatian Prayer
Joseph Tetlow on Prayer
Joseph Tetlow, SJ, is one of the Jesuits' leading authorities on spiritual direction. For years he worked in Rome as head of the Society's Secretariat for Ignatian Spirituality. In...