Ignatian Spirituality
Prayer, Spiritual Direction, Retreats, and Good Decisions
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Exploring the Examen Step-by-Step: Face Your Shortcomings
By Tim Muldoon Editor’s note: We continue our series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 4. Face your shortcomings. The Examen is a prayer of…
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Saints Quizzes and a Limited Series Premiere
By dotMagis Editor As we approach All Saints Day, we highlight a few resources designed to challenge and entertain. Quiz: Which Saintly Dreamer Are You? Take a fun online quiz to learn which saintly dreamer you are. The quiz is inspired by A Catechism of the Strange: Stigmata,…
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When You’re Feeling Lost
By Jim Manney Have you ever felt lost, bewildered, or off-course in your journey through life? The classic literary expression of lostness is Dante’s, at the beginning of The Divine Comedy. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the…
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Exploring the Examen Step-by-Step: Review the Day
By Lisa Kelly Editor’s note: We continue our series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 3. Review the day. In all my years of Catholic…
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Who Cuts Your Meat?
By Gerri Leder I step off my bike into a hole in the grass. Down I go; it is as simple as that. Everything happens in slow motion: the fall, the break as I reach out with my left arm, the visit to urgent care followed by the nine-day wait for surgery, and eight weeks of…
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Prayer Is Like Bleeding Your Pipes
By dotMagis Editor I grew up in a house that was well over a hundred years old. This house had a series of cast-iron radiators to keep it warm. During the winter months, the furnace would kick in and the heat and pressure would move the warmed water through the pipes and heat…
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Exploring the Examen Step-by-Step: Give Thanks
By Eric Clayton Editor’s note: We continue our series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 2. Give thanks. Gratitude is the attribute of the…
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Chipmunk Prayer
By Marina Berzins McCoy This past summer while on retreat I sat outdoors at breakfast, looking out at a beautiful garden of flowers and a blossoming tree near a statue of Mary. On the tree was a bird feeder attached to a branch. Beneath it I saw a chipmunk gathering seeds. There…
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Letting Go to Live the Magis
By Gretchen Crowder “How many sign-ups do we have?” I asked excitedly at the start of the meeting. “One,” he replied. “Just one so far.” We were meeting to plan the next offering of a course on Ignatian spirituality, and “one” was a smaller number than I expected to hear so…
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Exploring the Examen Step-by-Step: Ask God for Light
By Loretta Pehanich Editor’s note: Today we begin a series exploring each of the steps of the Examen. We’re using the Examen version from Jim Manney’s book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer. We’ll look at a different step each week. 1. Ask God for light. “Ready for bed?” my…
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Reflecting on Our Individual and Communal Prayer Mini-Retreat: The Lord’s Prayer
By Joe Paprocki Editor’s note: This week we bring to you a three-part mini-retreat devoted to reflecting on our individual and communal prayer. The retreat was written by Joe Paprocki, D.Min., author of 2027: A Book of Grace-Filled Days. The Lord’s Prayer Who is a famous person…