This year all the colleagues I work with have received a copy of a book called the Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O’Brien, S.J. This book guides a person through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, hopefully alongside a spiritual director. I started “the adventure” this week, and I have to admit, I am already starting […]
Last weekend, my husband and I went out the front door to discuss what work we wanted to do to the house. While we were out in the yard, one of the twins locked the front door behind us. I could see the outline of a nervous little child through the door as I tried […]
When I was a child, I thought there were just a few ways of praying. Besides going to mass, I had vivid memories of my mom in our small school chapel with a few friends, praying rhythmically through the rosary, repeating Hail Marys and Our Fathers from one decade to another alongside other people. In […]
Prior to this summer, I had never listened to a podcast. Then, two of my colleagues told me about how much they loved listening to podcasts. And then one colleague texted me a couple episodes of a podcast, and eventually, over time, they wore me down and I tuned into my first one. I listened […]
Thomas Merton once had a revelation on a street corner in Louisville that made the love of God tangible, visible for him in every person he saw walking by. He reasoned, after this revelation, that it would be something very difficult to explain in words to those he encountered. He wrote: “There is no way […]
