by Joanne Dehmer | Aug 21, 2025 | Blog
“These many beautiful days cannot be lived again…” These words by Daniel Berrigan are my words as I take leave of Loyola Spirituality Center. After I finished clearing my office and all other locations that held my material, I decided to return to Loyola to pray and...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Sep 15, 2022 | Featured Image
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No, not just for some, but for everyone.” Where is that “sweet love” today? How might I find it? This popular tune, by...
by Barbara Leonard | May 24, 2022 | Featured Image
Have you ever thought about how animals teach you? Maybe your cat or dog has taught you lessons, maybe also birds, squirrels, rabbits, or deer? Native Americans are astute observers of animals and name their clans after them. America itself is known as Turtle...
by Karen Treat | May 12, 2022 | Featured Image
“Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13: 34-35 The new commandment in the epitaph above is when Jesus is with the disciples on the night of his...
by Linda Cherek | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Image
“God is present to us at the deepest core of our being…God’s desires for us and our deepest desires are…not opposed but are one in the same.”Kevin O’Brien, The Ignatian Adventure What do you desire? This can be a challenging question for us to discern. Is...
