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The Only True Identity

My 84-year-old father, a former Air Force fighter pilot who traveled around the world, now spends his days mainly confined to his recliner. His...

With the "Blessed”

The stench of the mud hut with the tin roof that was home to a woman dying of breast cancer, her two children in...

A Moment of Shared Silence

It's safe to say that doing a year of service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) changed my life. I served as a teacher/lunch...

Trust in God

What does it mean to trust in God? Christians who call themselves faithful may say they place their uncertainties or difficult decisions in the...

God in the Mosquitoes

Just after a friend had introduced me to the concept of “God in all things,” I found myself at a lake outside the city,...

A Recipe for Dealing with Burnout

When my son was ten months old, I found myself at a point of ministry burnout. The adjustment to motherhood—combined with working on my...

Online Exercises Start this Week

Most people who make the Spiritual Exercises these days do them over the course of six or seven months. This "retreat in daily life"...

Praying the Examen with Children

Every year when school starts, I find myself setting goals that I want to work on as a mom and that we want to...

Wisdom Days

Fridays have become Wisdom Days. I will be 60 in a few weeks and after 38 years of working full-time, I asked my boss/friend/work...

Winding Down

Edmund Lo, SJ, tells a good story about monitoring one's inner states of consolation and desolation, as Ignatius did when he was recovering from...

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