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5 Ways to Find God in All Things
Finding God in your surroundings and in your life can at times be a challenge. We know the Examen prayer is one of the best ways to find God in your everyday, but there are a few other ways to become...
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Finding God In All Things
I’ve been a hospital chaplain and eucharistic minister and I’ve met patients in different spiritual places. They have different beliefs and faith traditions, all which can be a challenge to a minister...
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The Little Details
“Consider the lilies,” Jesus said. That line has always been a great supporter of Ignatian spirituality’s main feature of awareness. Jesuit Anthony de Mello always spoke much about awareness as a way...
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Another Story from the Bar
Anywhere I travel with my girlfriend we seek out unique cocktail bars and on a recent trip to the west coast we discovered one that really put me in touch with the spirituality of the awareness (and...
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The Secret, Revealed
Reading: Colossians 1:24-28 “And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ’s sufferings on behalf of his...
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Buddhism & Ignatian Spirituality: Parallels
One of my friends considers herself a Buddhist Catholic so in my curiosity I took it upon myself to read more about Buddhism, something I knew little about. After some reading of Buddhism for Dummies,...
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The Irritating Boy in the Pew
With my recent appreciation of non-judgemental awareness I’ve come to notice the small ways that it plays out in my life. This kind of awareness is a mindfulness of the present moment (which sometimes...
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God in the ER
This is a guest post by Cara Callbeck. There is always drama in an emergency room on a Friday night. I recently found myself in the midst of it all, having to report there on a matter that was not...
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Claire Underwood’s Conscience
I’ve started re-watching the first two seasons of the Netflix series House of Cards and I noticed something I hadn’t before that we can really learn from. Claire and Frank Underwood have an interesting...
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The Boundless Beauty of Holy Ground
This is a guest post by Michelle Lesher, SSJ. Picture it. An August retreat. A sunset as beautiful as any I had ever seen. The colors turned the sky into an artist’s canvas and I felt compelled to...
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The Extended Examen
A few weeks ago I was sitting with a friend talking about how things have been going over the last few months. We both recently made major transitions where we moved across the country and began life...
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Happy Endings
This is a guest post by Agnes M. Macatangay-Mercado. From Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/botunda/7587865942/ We automatically conclude that everybody loves happy endings. Listening to how...
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Why are we unloving?
From Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anantns/6765139575 Not long ago I was leaving my house in the morning and was behind a car that was about to turn onto the main road. Clearly her judgement had...
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Connective Tissue
This is a guest post by Lance Baker, originally posted on his blog. “During our lives we help each other: sometimes we help other people, sometimes we are helped by others. But the world is formed so...
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Slowing Down For the Holidays
I was rushing into the grocery store. I had snacks, drinks and goodies to buy for our young adult gathering at the parish. Per usual, I was running a little bit late and was in a hurry. As I approached...
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Keeping Vigil
Eva and me For the past three weeks of my new daughter’s life I’ve had restless nights, rocking her in my arms in our glider, lulling her back to sleep. I’ve found that these moments are a kind of...
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God Moments: Awareness
Next month my new book God Moments: Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary will be released by Ave Maria Press. In it I hope to offer you a way to open your heart to God’s presence in your everyday...
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Prophetic Listening
There is a deep Truth that underlies all of reality. Finding God in all things is not just about surface-level seeking but knowing the Presence beneath the surface, the real reality. Most of us let...
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Noticing: The Heart of Spiritual Maturity
I’ve always loved Anthony de Mello’s point about humanity going about life asleep. Key to Ignatian spirituality is awareness, noticing. When we notice the details about our life and surroundings, we...
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