Reflections
Holy Saturday as the Dark Night
The tabernacle is empty. The tomb is full. The stone is rolled across the opening. There is no going back. The disciples are overwhelmed with fear, shock, exhaustion, and...
Ignatian Prayer
Going Head-to-Head with Jesus
St. Ignatius would direct people in prayer to imagine Jesus was sitting in a chair across the room and to speak to him as one would speak to a...
Examen
My Examen Cheat Sheet
I want the power that comes with knowledge of things beyond me. And yet the only power I will ever have is how I respond to the feelings within...
Reflections
Into the Unknown with Ignatius
The night before my daughter started middle school, I found her alone in her room, curled up on her bed, her eyes welling with tears. She would be going...
Reflections
Hello, Anger
When I mentioned to my spiritual director that I was totally apathetic about my prayer life of late, and she asked if I were angry, my first response was...
Reflections
Dance with Me
I had been watching too many of those romantic European period pieces, the ones where the ball is the make-or-break moment of the whole movie. Somehow the courting couple...