The Ignatian Spirituality Project
The Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP) offers spiritual care and companionship programs for men and women in recovery from homelessness and addiction.
Office of Ignatian Spirituality
The Office of Ignatian Spirituality offers the Spiritual Exercises in ways the province’s retreat houses and spirituality centers do not, such as virtual retreats, and provide spiritual formation to Jesuits, Jesuit colleagues and others.
The Examen on the Road to Emmaus
By Fr. Sylvester Tan, SJ Alleluia, Christ is risen! Having completed the Easter octave, we find ourselves in the midst of the mysterious forty days between Christ’s resurrection and his ascension into heaven. Ignatius of Loyola notes that following the resurrection, Jesus appears to his friends – the ones who believed in him during his […]
Inspiring Modern-Day Missionaries on the Brébeuf Relic Tour
Video by Fr. W. Tucker Redding, SJ Story by Rachel Amiri The history of the Society of Jesus is rich with the witness of saints who offered their lives as missionaries and martyrs. A desire to inspire a new generation of missionaries led the vocations teams from the Jesuits USA Central and Southern, Midwest and […]
Palm Sunday: Can we make a return of love?
By Gretchen Crowder Twenty years later, I can still hear the crack as his knees struck the gym floor. In a high school gym in the spring of 2004, I was lying covertly behind some makeshift dividers with one hand lying close to the play button and the other hand clutching the volume dial of […]
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 […]
