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Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe

Jim Manney

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

Blogwatch

Jim Manney

A couple of interesting new bloggers have set up shop lately. Convert Webster Bull writes the blog "Why I am a Catholic." The title of...

Back to School at Cristo Rey

Jim Manney

This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for...

Best Ignatian Songs: Livin' on a Prayer

Jim Manney

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'...

Administration as a Spiritual Path

Jim Manney

People who work as administrators grumble about it all the time. "Another meeting." "Another performance review." "Another crisis." Yet administration is on St. Paul's...

The Power of a Book

Jim Manney

Here is a fascinating conversion story by a blogger named Webster Bull. The decisive moment in his spiritual journey came when he wandered into...

Ignatian Contemplation

Jim Manney

Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of...

Best Ignatian Songs: Ripple

Jim Manney

This week's song selection is "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead. It was recommended by John Montag, SJ, who wrote on the Ignatian Spirituality Facebook...