Trying to Get it Right: Contemplating the sins of the world and our individual acts is difficult. Sometimes it can lead us to the brink of despair. Ignatius understood this. He faced his own demons and deeply contemplated sin all around him. But he also felt the deep, abiding love of God.
A Long, Loving Look at the Real: Race and Perceptions: Each week of the Spiritual Exercises asks us to pray for a particular grace. This week, we pray, in the words of Kevin O’Brien, SJ.
Interior Knowledge, A Step Toward Freedom: Today we celebrate a time-old tradition and hallmark of our American democracy, the presidential inauguration. For the second time in our country’s history, we will have a Catholic president.
I will confess to less reflection on the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6 and its aftermath than to consumption of the news about and other people’s reflections on them, so don’t expect anything too profound here.
The Freedom to Love: This email is unlike any other you have received today. Discernment Series: Racial Justice is really like a retreat in your daily life. To center yourself, go ahead, close your other tabs.
Father John Coleman reviews a new book on the resurrection, and what it means in our everyday lives. I cannot recommend too highly the extraordinary new book by Veronica Mary Rolf and Eva Natanya. It could easily soon become a kind of classic. Well researched, concisely written and full of ways to help us understand what resurrection means and how we can enter resurrected lives, I learned much but also was deeply spiritually moved by the book.
Welcome to the journey: Between the first step, which is to come close and allow yourself to be struck by what you see, and the third step, which is to act concretely to heal and repair, there is an essential intermediate stage: to discern and to choose.