by Joanne Dehmer | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured Image
There is an ancient form of prayer called Benevolent Gazing. It’s a wordless, silent prayer done with the eyes. It is to look with love wherever we look—at the painted evening sunset, at the man who helps me carry my groceries to my car, at the face of the one in the...
by Karen Treat | Oct 14, 2021 | Featured Image
I am thankful for my Ignatian spirituality. In this time of such discontent and unknowns, the constant of God being in all things settles me. Brings the abundance that God wants for me and for all humanity. To see God in the ordinary and the...
by Karen Wight Hoogheem | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Image, Uncategorized
For our daughter’s fifteenth birthday, Joel and I purchased three tickets to the Harry Styles concert. We were relieved when the concert, originally scheduled for July 2020, was postponed to September 2021 because of COVID. So, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, my...
by Linda Cherek | Oct 6, 2021 | Featured Image
One of our parish’s former priests, Fr Charlie Willis always reminded us in his homilies that we were all saints with a small “s”. This was especially poignant in November when we celebrate All Souls and All Saints days as well as Halloween. In Pope Francis’...
by Lindsay McGlynn | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured Image
Hello! I am Lindsay, one of the newest spiritual directors at Loyola Spirituality Center. The spiritual direction ministry at Loyola played an important role in my journey towards becoming a spiritual director over the past 5 years, so it is especially meaningful to...
by Tom Allen | Sep 21, 2021 | Featured Image
“The spirit of Ignatius of Loyola inspires our common work and commitment to one another.” This is part of the commitment staff has made to each other at Loyola Spirituality Center. At different points in Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, he invites retreatants to...
