St. Ignatius, like many spiritual masters over the centuries, suggested that humility was a prerequisite for the spiritual life. In his Spiritual Exercises, he...

Contemplation to Attain the Love of God

Spiritual Exercises Marina Berzins McCoy

The Contemplation to Attain the Love of God is a kind of capstone of Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises. Sometimes it is phrased as “The Contemplation...

Magis

Spiritual Exercises James Martin, SJ

A few years ago, I was visiting a Jesuit college and speaking to an eager and enthusiastic undergraduate. Our conversation turned to the idea...

Finding God in the Birds

Reflections Shemaiah Gonzalez

Growing up in Inner City Los Angeles, I hadn’t really seen a bird that wasn’t a pigeon unless I went to the beach. You...

Decision Making

Discernment Barbara Lee

We are constantly making decisions, every day, all day: what to eat for breakfast, what to wear, whether to add an umbrella to all...

Consolation and Desolation Whiplash

Discernment Loretta Pehanich

I used to think that desolation was a state one entered for a long period of time, like Mother Teresa experiencing years of dry...

On Gratitude

Reflections Cindy Ristroph

Driving home recently, I couldn’t help but notice that God seemed intent on slowing me down—behind a bus first, then a delivery truck; then...

I Am Not Worthy

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

I slipped into the church, unseen by the women cleaning on Saturday morning; the vacuum’s blare wiped out my footsteps. Early for a women’s...

Ignatian Indifference

Spiritual Exercises Marina Berzins McCoy

Often, we think about freedom as freedom from interference from others, but St. Ignatius understood freedom differently. For him, human freedom is a freedom...

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