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Best Ignatian Songs: Jesus Ahatonhia

"Jesus ahatonhia," our last Christmas song of the season, is probably the first Christmas carol written in North America. The title means "Jesus, he...

Best Ignatian Songs: And the Glory of the Lord

About ten days ago I went to a performance of Handel's Messiah by the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan.  I do...

Best Ignatian Songs: What a Wonderful World

I'll bet that you already know and love this week's Ignatian song, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day.  There's no better time to listen to...

Best Ignatian Songs: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Our Ignatian song this week is U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." It's a song of deep spiritual yearning. You broke...

Best Ignatian Songs: Heavenly Day

This week's Ignatian song is the lovely ballad "Heavenly Day," written by the eclectic folk-county-rock artist Patty Griffin. I ran across it about the...

Best Ignatian Songs: To Be a Pilgrim

In his autobiography, St. Ignatius Loyola wrote of himself in the third person as "the pilgrim." As David Fleming, SJ, writes in What Is...

Best Ignatian Songs: Stand By Me

You may have already seen this week's Ignatian song on YouTube. More than 14 million people have. It's an inventive version of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Every Grain of Sand

It's back to Bob Dylan for this week's Ignatian song.  It's "Every Grain of Sand," one of Dylan's many songs with powerful Biblical imagery....

Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe

One of my favorite movies is The Mission, a film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. One of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Livin' on a Prayer

This week's Ignatian song is the hard rock classic "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. It's about a working class couple "livin'...

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