Lisa’s Book
Reflections
Flashing the Light for Community
On a cold February night, about 15 people stood outside in a parking lot of a burger joint, singing with guitar accompaniment. The people in the restaurant must have...
Ignatian Prayer
Time for Prayer
How hard can it be to take 10, 15, 20 minutes a day for dedicated prayer or reflection and contemplation? And yet the commitment to any regular prayer practice...
St. Ignatius Loyola
What Would Ignatius Think About Social Media?
With all our technology we truly have the capacity to live our lives in almost constant contact with others virtually anywhere. So really, I don't ever have to say...
Discernment
A 24-Hour Life and Death Discernment
“We have two options. We can do our best to keep the disease at bay and just treat side effects, leaving you days or weeks to live, or we...
Ignatian Prayer
Embracing the Suscipe
I used to be scared of the Suscipe. I would say the prayer, but my inner voice would be saying, “Please don’t ask that of me.” The Suscipe is...
Spiritual Exercises
Three Types of People Revisited
In the Spiritual Exercises there is a meditation on “three types of people.” I think we are misled, though, by Ignatius naming these people as static “types” rather than...