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Find Your Inner Iggy
The second annual Find Your Inner Iggy celebration starts today and runs through July 31, the feast of St. Ignatius. Go to findyourinneriggy.com and answer daily questions about how you find God....
View ArticleWhat Surprises You About St. Ignatius?
Vinita Wright and I chat about what surprised us in the life of St. Ignatius. Now it’s your turn. What surprises you about St. Ignatius or his namesake spirituality? The post What Surprises You About...
View ArticleOn the Camino
This past week or so I’ve been following a group of Australian pilgrims as they walk the Ignatian Camino, a 340-mile pilgrimage route in northeastern Spain that starts in the town of Loyola and ends at...
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Find Your Inner Iggy 2014
Find Your Inner Iggy is back! For the final week of Ignatian celebration this July, we’re recalling milestones from St. Ignatius’s life and exploring our own spirituality some 500 years later. Find out...
View ArticleThe Women in St. Ignatius’s Life
Rosemary DeJulio of Fordham University talks about the significance of women in St. Ignatius’s life and what modern women can take from his legacy in this 16-minute video. If you’re receiving this via...
View ArticleThe Sin of Ingratitude
A question recently came to the editor’s desk about the fact that St. Ignatius believed ingratitude to be “the cause, beginning, and origin of all evils and sins.” The quote is from a letter dated...
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Celebrating 31 Days with St. Ignatius
July is almost here, which means we’re getting ready for this year’s 31 Days with St. Ignatius. This month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality leads up to the feast day of its namesake on July...
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Is God at Work?
How are we to interpret the alternately serendipitous and disappointing, unexpected and unpredictable, courses of our lives? What is happening when death or financial disaster force us to reconsider...
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Camino Ignaciano Jubilee Year
The Camino Ignaciano is a pilgrimage that traces the route St. Ignatius Loyola walked through Spain after his conversion in 1522. The Jesuits in Britain share this news about the pilgrimage: The...
View ArticleTour of the Rooms of St. Ignatius
Take a tour of the rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome with this video featuring Michael W. Maher, SJ. The video is almost 23 minutes, and it in Fr. Maher shares information about Rome at the time of...
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What Is Most Surprising about the Life of St. Ignatius?
Jim Manney, Ignatian author and founding editor of this blog, is being honored with the Writer’s Award in Spirituality from the Loyola Institute for Spirituality. Here we see Jim talking with Vinita...
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Celebrating the Seventh-Annual 31 Days with St. Ignatius
July is almost here, which means we’re getting ready for the seventh-annual 31 Days with St. Ignatius. This month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality leads up to the feast day of its namesake on...
View ArticleHappy Feast Day, St. Ignatius!
Today, on the Feast Day of St. Ignatius Loyola, I offer a prayer. Creator God, who loves pilgrims everywhere, thank you for the journey of your saint, Ignatius of Loyola, who marked the path for those...
View ArticleThe Cave of St. Ignatius
The Jesuits of Catalunya produced a 11-minute video outlining the life story of St. Ignatius Loyola. What differentiates it from other videos on the saint is its focus on Manresa, Spain, with footage...
View ArticleTrust in the Poor Jesus
By dotMagis Editor Trust is very much a central feature of Ignatian spirituality, just as it was for Luther. Trust became a focal point for Luther out of his reading of St. Paul. It became a focus for...
View ArticleWriting Letters
By Michelle Francl-Donnay Yesterday I sent off 15 letters, one to each of the students in my just-completed course on contemplative traditions in the West. I wrote to give them comments on their final...
View ArticleChallenged by Ignatius
By Vinita Hampton Wright I’ve heard Jesuits joke that they’re not afraid to meet Jesus in the hereafter, but they are a bit anxious about meeting St. Ignatius. Jesuits go through rigorous training for...
View ArticleLittle Lesson from St. Ignatius of Loyola
By dotMagis Editor “We should not prefer health to sickness, riches to poverty, honor to dishonor, a long life to a short life. . . . Our one desire and choice should be what is more conducive to the...
View ArticleSeven Tips for Communicating Well from St. Ignatius
By Rebecca Ruiz St. Ignatius must have thought a lot about how to manage oneself in the face of serious differences of opinion. Part of the answer was how he used his communication skills. What pearls...
View ArticleThree Ignatian New Year’s Resolutions
By Marina McCoy Here are three New Year’s resolutions grounded in the counsel of St. Ignatius Loyola. 1. Give others the benefit of the doubt. Ignatius said to be, “more ready to put a good...
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