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We Can’t Be Anything We Want to Be

dotMagis Editor

It’s normal for children to dream of becoming superheroes and unicorns and all sorts of things they cannot become. But we need to grow...

Do Less, Then Obsess

dotMagis Editor

In a One-Minute Jesuit video, Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, explains, “Living the magis is not about taking on more activities. Rather, it’s about focusing...

Challenge and the Meditation on Two Standards

Tim Muldoon

A central meditation in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises is that of the Two Standards, in which retreatants are to imagine two armies on a...

Exercising with God

Loretta Pehanich

Sit-ups, leg lifts, and squats: how can I pray at all times when I’m supposed to be exercising? I wonder how the people in Thessalonica...

Four Ways Ignatian Spirituality Helps Us Stay on an Even Keel

Marina Berzins McCoy

We live in unsettling times; war, disease, political conflict, and even turbulent weather can feel disquieting. How can we stay on an even keel...

Eager to Reach Out and Touch Faith

Eric Clayton

I was running late for Mass. That’s not terribly uncommon in my life, as getting two little girls out the door early on a Sunday...

God’s Magnanimous Love and the Suscipe

Gretchen Crowder

When I first discovered Ignatian spirituality more than 15 years ago, I came to it with a deeply rooted belief that what God wanted...

Grace at Rock Bottom

Shemaiah Gonzalez

When I converted to Catholicism 15 years ago, a family friend mailed me a copy of The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor with a...

Health, Memories, and the Spiritual Life

Gary Jansen

What do inflammation, memory, and spirituality have in common? Quite a bit. Inflammation is our body’s attempt to protect itself from invading pathogens. For example,...