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How Do I Identify the Work That Matters?

Vinita Hampton Wright

It can take awhile—sometimes many years—for a person to sort out all that she’s been taught, told, and in some cases manipulated to believe...

The Miracle Organ

Giacinta

During a recent holiday, I visited a man who received a new organ from a donor. Childhood illnesses had ravaged his body. These complications...

Counterfeit Consolation

dotMagis Editor

We need Ignatius’s first set of rules for discernment because desolation is a common experience. We need his second set because of another unwelcome...

Pentecost Astonishment

dotMagis Editor

A fundamental element of Pentecost is astonishment. Our God is a God of astonishment; this we know. No one expected anything more from the...

Just One of Those Things

Loretta Pehanich

“It’s just one of those things,” my grandma used to say all the time. It meant that she heard, but she had no helpful...

Sense Experience in Prayer

Marina Berzins McCoy

My dog is watchful at the window a good part of the day. He is a mix of German Shepherd and Catahoula Leopard Dog,...

Pentecost’s Quiet Whisper

Gretchen Crowder

During this Easter season, I attended a conference of Mission Formation Officers in the Jesuit Schools Network; I was on the organizing committee. As...

Fr. Greg Boyle Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

dotMagis Editor

Congratulations to Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, author of Forgive Everyone Everything, on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work at Homeboy Industries!...

Apostolic Joy

Shemaiah Gonzalez

A friend of mine recently converted to Catholicism. Like me, she was once a card-carrying Protestant. “What made you convert?” I asked, knowing for...