Vinita's Books
Something to Think About
Three Ways to Recharge in the Summertime
We can rest and recreate during the summer months, but how about going a step further? How do we recharge ourselves for the months to come? How can we...
Discernment
Three Ways to Respond When Life Goes a Different Direction
After Ignatius of Loyola gave his life to God’s service, he imagined that he should go to Jerusalem to pray and do penance, make pilgrimage to the sites of...
Discernment
Minding Our Thought Patterns
In St. Ignatius’s second set of rules for discernment—the rules pertaining to more subtle discernment, what we might call advanced discernment—he addresses, in rules 5 and 6, how we...
St. Ignatius Loyola
Ignatius at University: Finding His Tribe
Each of us grows up and goes searching for our tribe. Our tribe is the group of people with whom we most easily relate. I could call this “community,”...
Ignatian Prayer
Looking Back on Prayer
We can look back on prayer in more than one way. Judge what is most helpful for you at this time.
Prayer at Different Life Stages
Look back on how prayer...
Spirituality
Living with Unexpected Change
“Living with unexpected change” describes the life of just about everybody I know. A marriage hits hard times thanks to extended illness or unemployment. A son or daughter defies...