Fifth Sunday of Lent: Are we comfortable engaging with our mortality?
By Gretchen Crowder I have to admit, I have spent most of my life uncomfortable with the topic of death. In particular, I have spent most of my life uncomfortable with discussing my own mortality. I don’t know why. After all, I have from a very young age believed in heaven and life after death. […]
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Are we truly open to God’s offer of friendship?
By Gretchen Crowder I have always labeled God’s love for me as agape, but the more time I spend immersed in Ignatian Spirituality, the more I am open to considering that the best representation of God’s love for me might just be philia instead. If you are not familiar with the four Greek words for […]
Follow Jesus into the Desert
By Fr. Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time […]
Third Sunday of Lent: Can we get emotional with God?
By Gretchen Crowder One question has been weighing on my mind this week as I reflected on the Gospel for the 3rd Sunday of Lent: Am I comfortable with an emotional Jesus? We know Jesus experienced emotions, a wide variety of them, in fact. After all, Jesus was human, and we humans, whether we like […]
Spirituality, Service, Fraternity: All in a Day’s Work for Senior Jesuits
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff A few months ago, I received an invitation to visit St. Ignatius Hall, the new community in St. Louis for senior Jesuits and those Jesuits who require nursing care. The men wanted to learn more about Jesuit Prayer, a spirituality platform offering each day’s readings, a reflection and a prayer. The […]
Second Sunday of Lent: Can we see ourselves as God sees us?
By Gretchen Crowder I want my mountaintop experience, don’t you? I want Jesus in all his tangible humanity and intangible divinity to come right up to me, grab my hand in his, and walk me up a mountain. Then, I want to see his clothes become dazzling white with my human eyes and hear “This […]
Reflections on Lay Collaboration with Jesuits
By Mark McNeil The Preamble to the Constitutions of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (1970) offered a response to some troubling and pressing questions regarding Jesuit education. Chief among these was, “Does it really make sense to call a school ‘Jesuit,’ when many or most of those teaching and working in Jesuit schools are not […]
The First Sunday of Lent: Are we really free?
By Gretchen Crowder A couple weeks ago, I was introducing my senior students to Henri Nouwen by showing them a video of one of his sermons. I warned them before we began: “Just so you know, in the 90s, we really liked ferns. I think it’s what we called “creating an atmosphere” back then.” When […]
Leaning into Our Belovedness: A Reflection for Lent
By Gretchen Crowder I really feel for kids everywhere this year. I remember what a big deal Valentine’s Day was when I was a child — it always meant coming home with a big pile of candy and an even bigger smile on my face. I also remember what Lent felt like as a kid, […]
The Grace of God has Appeared
A child is born for us. Yet what do those words – for us – really mean? They mean that the Son of God, the one who is holy by nature, came to make us, as God’s children, holy by grace. Yes, God came into the world as a child to make us children of […]
Litany of Thanksgiving
O gracious and generous God, I thank you for the many blessings you have given me: For the gift of life: I thank you, Lord. For your steadfast love: I thank you, Lord. For this astonishing, complex planet and all you have created: I thank you, Lord. For faith and the example of your saints: […]
AMDG Podcast: Discover Your Inner Artist Spirit with Chris Pramuk
On this episode of the AMDG podcast, Dr. Chris Pramuk, Regis University’s Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination, discusses the intersection of faith, creativity and justice.
