Poetry

God of welcome, God of embrace, As ocean waves rise and fall, as stormy clouds gather and clear, as moving winds blow and subside, So, too, does my...

The Earth is yearning. I can see it in the strings of lights, so many more...

St. Ignatius urged his followers to converse with Jesus in the same way that one would speak with a very dear friend. In his...

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re celebrating 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian...

Love as if loving is the first thing on your to-do list. Love as if you have no other plan but to love. Love as if...

Autumn Leaves Summer’s end cathedral windows paint pale canvas, dapple our shadows with sight, for colors pieced and patched quilt earth to sky; precious colors once hidden within, made plain by grace, grace us. Fall’s Last...

A Room Filled with Treasure You showed me a room filled with treasure, precious, priceless, and told me it was mine; I marveled: what a gift! such abundance! a comfort to...

While we’re often called to actively participate in God’s good work in the world, sometimes God tells us to stop for a bit and...

Sometimes God heals and comforts us, like Jesus did for Jairus’s daughter, the woman with the hemorrhage, and Peter’s mother-in-law. Sometimes God heals and...

Pentecost I watch Your branches dance, bathed in morning sun, and wonder at the work of Spirit’s breath between the leaves; what You have begun You will fulfill, and we who wait so...