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Changing States
I was speaking to a friend who spent just two weeks in religious life but discerned to leave. It took the action of entering to help him discern that it wasn’t God’s will for his life. For me it took...
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God in the Bathroom
You may find this odd, but one of the best prayer times for me is whenever I make a visit to the bathroom. Whether it’s in the shower or during a quick midday biological break, I find it’s one of the...
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A New Year’s Resolution Purpose
The human race has searched endlessly for the meaning of life, and our individual purposes. In his newest book, A New Earth, spiritual author Eckhart Tolle speaks a lot about purpose. The Spiritual...
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Music, Photographs, and Stained Glass: Methods of Prayer
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Elliott. It seems that most of my prayer each day is a flat-out conversation with God – asking, thanking and sometimes being frustrated. It’s been a rough year with...
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Finding God in Near-Food-Poisoning
I have found God on mountaintops and in produce, but not long ago I had an unexpected encounter of God: amidst the pains and fears of imminent food poisoning. I was in Florida for a conference for work...
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Evening Examen
Had a good day? A tough day? Why not spend ten minutes this evening reflecting on your day with God at your side? The Examen prayer is one of the foundations of Ignatian prayer. Saint Ignatius said if...
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God in Nothing
Nothing is bad. Nothing is insignificant. — This is what we’re told. But “nothing” has so much more to that. Grammatically, nothing is something. “Blake gave Cathy nothing for Christmas.” What...
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Morning Examen
Good morning! I hope you’ve had the chance to pray the Evening Examen. But the Examen is not just an end of the day prayer! Introducing the Morning Examen, meant to be prayed in the morning, assessing...
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Magis
I think life is pointless if you don’t strive for greater things. It’s what propels civilisation forward. During Walt Disney World’s Millennium Celebration back in 2000 one of their theme songs was “We...
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Secret Agent L
This is a guest post by Laura Miller. I never wanted to be a secret agent. In fact, I wanted to be a concert pianist. And a teacher. And an actress. And a philanthropist. (I had a very active...
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God Rocks
I volunteer weekly as a Eucharistic Minister at a Boston hospital. Time and time again I am inspired by the strong couples I encounter. One couple recently celebrated 40 years together and told me that...
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Can I call God a friend?
I was speaking to someone who clearly had a great reverence for God. “You can’t call God a friend or your buddy,” he said. “You’ve got to have respect and fear of God.” For this person, he could not...
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Repetition
If you’re like me you love change and new experiences. “In with the new and out with the old!” people like us might say. But Saint Ignatius says, “Woah, how about going back to the old again? You might...
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The Magic of God
I recall quiet nights in prayer when there was no light in my bedroom but a small tea light candle in a red glass votive cup. It was simple and disarming. My prayer was nothing more than watching the...
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The Little Details
“Consider the lilies,” Jesus said. That line has always been a great supporter of Ignatian spirituality’s main feature of awareness. Jesuit Anthony de Mello always spoke much about awareness as a way...
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Another Story from the Bar
Anywhere I travel with my girlfriend we seek out unique cocktail bars and on a recent trip to the west coast we discovered one that really put me in touch with the spirituality of the awareness (and...
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The Secret, Revealed
Reading: Colossians 1:24-28 “And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ’s sufferings on behalf of his...
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Prayer of the Senses
You may be tired of how much I talk about the importance of feelings in Ignatian spirituality. We have internal feelings that can indicate God’s pull—these can be strongly tied to emotions. Ignatius...
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Your Own Spiritual Exercises
During the beginning of Saint Ignatius’ journeys, after he had laid his sword before the altar of Our Lady of Montserrat and had taken the clothes of a beggar, he made his way to a cave in Manresa for...
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Courage!
A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and...
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