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Saving the World

dotMagis Editor

Something to think about | Much of the reflection in the Exercises is geared to an effort to share the vision of Jesus and...

How to Have Fun When All Around You Are Getting Grumpy

Vinita Hampton Wright

Put on as background music, A Chipmunk Christmas. Put out a plate of cookies in the middle of the day. Make up at least one gag...

Advent Retreat: The Second Week of Advent

Jim Manney

If you are following along with our Advent retreat, this is the place for brief reflections to jump-start your week. Please share your retreat...

Advent Is My Favorite Season

Meredith Gould

Forget childlike excitement on the night before Christmas, this adult is way more enthusiastic about celebrating four weeks of Advent. Advent is my favorite season,...

Desire for What You Want

Jim Manney

Desire is a key concept in Ignatian spirituality; we've written about it frequently on dotMagis. (See, for example, here, here, and here.) When we...

Women of Goodness

dotMagis Editor

Gary Smith, SJ, on Sudanese refugee mothers: "I have known and wept with and consoled the Sudanese refugee woman, particularly as she is a mother....

Advent Retreat: The First Week of Advent

Jim Manney

Welcome to Advent 2010! Our Advent resources this year include the Advent retreat booklet based on the Spiritual Exercises in everyday life. Here on...

Feeling Good Together

Tim Muldoon

One of the very best lines I've heard about love came from the wise mouths of Zhang Mucheng (101 years old) and Xu Dongying,...

Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin

dotMagis Editor

Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like...