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 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 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 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...
