An Examen for a New Year
Use this Examen to close 2025 and move into 2026 with gratitude and awareness of God’s movements in your life.
A Child Is Born for Us
A reading from the Christmas Eve homily of Pope Francis in 2020.
Simeon Was Waiting
As Christmas draws closer, it is a good time to pause and take stock of our Advent preparations. How have we been watching and waiting for the Lord?
Prayer for Vocations
Creator and Lord, You have created us to praise, reverence and serve You for Your greater honor and glory. May the call of Christ be heard today by young people with generous hearts and a passion for service. Through the intercession of Your Blessed Mother Mary, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier and all […]
Happy St. Ignatius Day!
Every July 31, we commemorate the life and spiritual legacy of St. Ignatius Loyola, a founding father of the Society of Jesus.
The Mercy of God Is Stronger Than Our Failings
Fr. Dan White, SJ, encourages us along the journey of Lenten prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
The Stations of the Cross with Migrants
This Lent, keep in your heart and prayers our migrant brothers and sisters.
A Prayer for Spiritual Freedom
Prayer for spiritual freedom
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 […]
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 […]
