by Barbara Leonard | Sep 15, 2021 | Featured Image
This is a special Ignatian year and it is also a special Franciscan year. 800 years ago, Francis of Assisi established the Third Order for ordinary men and women living and working in the world. Over these years the Order has evolved but remains constant at its core....
by Linda Cherek | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Image
I know family and friends who love the change of seasons, especially from summer to Autumn (also acknowledged as Fall). Watermelon, floating in the lake on a flotation device, noticing the warm summer breeze, flowers blooming in gardens and if you’re lucky when...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Image
Ignatian Spirituality, as experienced in the Spiritual Exercises, informs me that repetition of previous readings can offer fresh insight to current everyday situations. Today, as I reflect on the 20th anniversary of the events on September 11, 2001, I revisited my...
by Kay Vander Vort | Aug 26, 2021 | Featured Image
One of my takeaways from Ignatian spirituality is the value of pilgrimage. My first real encounter with pilgrimage was in May, 1997 when the Loyola staff made a pilgrimage to the Ignatian holy places in Spain. That trip was a classical pilgrimage –...
by Carolyn Kolovitz | Aug 20, 2021 | Featured Image
Sometimes all the violent men in the news really wear me down. The Taliban in Afghanistan and shootings, sexual assaults and domestic violence in Minnesota are heavy on my heart. It makes me wonder how Jesus’ message of peace might have had a more transformative...
by Karen Treat | Aug 11, 2021 | Featured Image
“Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me.” John 15:4 (MSG) The summer of 2020 was a cinch...
