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Discernment

Making Big Decisions

In the Exercises, Ignatius describes a mode of discernment for making bigger decisions, traditionally called the election (SE 169–89). Making an election relies on...

Reframing Our Vision

In ancient Rome, Janus was the two-faced god of beginnings and endings, but also of transitions and passages. It is therefore no surprise that...

Yellow Arrows and Discernment

Several years ago, I was blessed with a chance to walk part of the Camino de Santiago. Each day, we awoke early, put on...

The Grace We Need

No matter how pure our motives and how flawless our discernment process, we depend on God's grace ultimately to help us make not only...

How God Gets Our Attention

Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, responds to the question, “How does God get our attention?” He explains these points in the video: Attention involves the whole...

Job and Desolation

Job, we are told, was a righteous man, graced by God with all manner of blessing. But when Satan struck a wager with God...

Follow the Joy

From time to time, we feel the need to understand better what our gifts are. I think this is particularly true at certain stages...

We Can’t Be Anything We Want to Be

It’s normal for children to dream of becoming superheroes and unicorns and all sorts of things they cannot become. But we need to grow...

Assuming the Best Intentions While Discerning as a Couple

St. Ignatius wrote many letters, and on occasion I read from a collection of them to learn more about his approach to applying spirituality...

Walking with Ignatius in Discernment

Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, is releasing a video each month during this Ignatian Year. The videos serve...

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