by Karen Treat | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured Image
The past two years we have weathered many storms. I wonder when we are going to find calm waters. At least for a while. And every summer I begin by hoping I will be refreshed and renewed by the time September rolls around. Yet, with...
by Linda Cherek | Jun 29, 2022 | Featured Image
As I was exploring resources from my formation program, I found a real treasure I wanted to share with you. It is both Aramaic (A), the language most historians believe the historical Jesus spoke and Greek (G) translations of the Beatitudes. I find them rich and...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Feb 10, 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.” ~Brett James and Mary Holladay Lamar Where is that “sweet love” today? How might I...
by Tom Allen | Jul 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ignatius of Loyola espoused the prayer practice called Examen (reflecting daily on what was life giving and what was life draining). His own experience taught him that God was present in all things. Gratitude was a natural response to that awareness – and...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured Image
Recent blog entries from Loyola colleagues about the need to nurture compassion, mercy and love invite me to contemplate the role of compassion in my own life and within the communities where I live and serve. Acutely, I become aware of the lack of compassion within...