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Live Out of the Heart

Marina Berzins McCoy

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Finding the Leaks

Eric Clayton

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Gratitude Like a Cinematic Slap

Jean Heaton

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While the Game Unfolds

Gretchen Crowder

Discernment of Spirits and the Missioned Life

Discernment dotMagis Editor

Discernment of spirits isn’t just for adults. Help teens ask themselves how they make decisions, and lead them to practice discernment so that they...

A Quiet Miracle

Spiritual Exercises Gretchen Crowder

“May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.” —John O’Donohue I recently began the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises...

Autumn Panic

Spiritual Exercises Mary Ann Gessner

I was a city kid until I moved to rural Vermont in 1979, where even now there are more trees than people. The northeast...

A Discipline of Noticing

Reflections Shemaiah Gonzalez

There are lines from a poem by Ted Kooser to his mother that I think about often. In the poem, simply called “Mother,” Kooser...

Dealing with Annoyances

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

Last year, I wrote a book on the topic of forgiveness, and lately I have been thinking about a separate but related topic: how...

Middle School

Reflections Shemaiah Gonzalez

I have two middle-school age sons, and the word of the hour is awkward! They are tired all the time from their ever-morphing bodies....

Four Strategies for Discernment

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, there are various “rules for the discernment of spirits”—what we would simply call principles of wise discernment....

Instruments in a Symphony of Grace

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

“Make me an instrument of your peace,” we regularly pray at our parish. I wonder what instrument I would be in God’s orchestra—an oboe,...

Rare Treasures

Reflections Gretchen Crowder

The corpse flower only blooms once every three to ten years. It’s very rare. Well, actually, the plant itself is not rare, just the...

Cannonball of Love

Reflections Tim Muldoon

I’m sitting in the auditorium at the college during orientation day for my first-year student daughter. The speaker is talking about Jesuit education and...

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