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Poinsettias and Prayer

Ignatian Prayer Marina Berzins McCoy

Many people enjoy decorating their homes or offices with poinsettias during the holiday season. Poinsettias, or flores de Nochebuena, are associated with Christmas on...

What the Sisters of Bon Secours Taught Me About the Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

I knew nothing of the Sisters of Bon Secours before moving to Baltimore. It was an Ignatian-inspired retreat that would bring me to the sisters’...

Our Presence Is Enough

Spiritual Exercises Eric Clayton

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. We had only been home for a handful of hours. We were groggy...

Finding God in What Is Tender and Small This Season

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

In Advent, we await the second coming of Christ, and we also welcome the ways that God breaks into our lives again and again....

Luke Learns from Mary

Ignatian Prayer Loretta Pehanich

In honor of the October 18 feast of St. Luke, let’s listen in to an imagined story by the evangelist. It started with Mary. I...

Driving in the Fourth Week

Spiritual Exercises Lisa Kelly

I swore I would never get a vanity license plate. But then I did. I can’t exactly say it came from deep prayer and...

Watching Fireworks

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

This post is based on Week Six of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Editor’s note: This article was written before we started practicing social distancing to...