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  • About
    • About Loyola
    • Ignatian Spirituality
    • Our Staff
    • Our Board of Directors
    • In the Community
    • † Internal Staff Documents
  • Spiritual Direction
    • About Spiritual Direction
      • Help Me Find A Spiritual Director
    • Our Spiritual Directors
      • Barbara Leonard
      • Carolyn Kolovitz
      • Dan Johnson
      • Joanne Dehmer, SSND
      • Karen Treat
      • Linda Cherek
      • Mary Noble Garcia
      • Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde
      • Reina Brekke
      • Susanna Bertelsen
      • Tom Allen
      • View All
    • Group Spiritual Direction
    • The Spiritual Exercises
  • Programs
    • Intro to the Enneagram
    • A Time to Remember
    • Priests Retreat 2023
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    • The Spiritual Exercises
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    • One-on-One Enneagram
    • View All Programs
  • Reflections
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Jesus in Tube Socks: Ignatian Spiritual Practice and Healing Shame

Jesus in Tube Socks: Ignatian Spiritual Practice and Healing Shame

by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde | Jul 2, 2021 | Featured Image

“No one wears their uniform on the first day of school.” She whispered those words to me on the playground outside Sacred Heart. Her tone felt like scalding water to my ear drums. It was my first day of 4th grade at Sacred Heart Elementary in Norfolk, Nebraska. After...
Cannonballs and Conversion: Embracing The Ignatian Year

Cannonballs and Conversion: Embracing The Ignatian Year

by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde | Jun 25, 2021 | Featured Image

We are here because of a cannonball. On May 20, 1521, while in a heavily outweighed battle against the French, Basque soldier Iñigo Lopez de Loyola was struck by a cannonball in Pamplona. His leg was shattered, and he was carried home by the defeating army to...
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