The synod secretariat has gone to extraordinary lengths to encourage each member into a disposition of openness so that maybe, just maybe, the Holy Spirit can act.
Prayer
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: What sets this synod apart? Prayer.
What strikes me most about the synod, now in its third day, is the climate of prayer that envelops it, Gerry O’Connell writes.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
For those in hospice, this Jesuit prayer brought peace in the face of death
The hardest prayer in St. Ignatius’s spiritual exercises eventually brought peace to the dying.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
With great spirit and generosity: A reflection on Jesuit tertianship
Sam Sawyer, S.J., returns from his tertianship in South Africa to his role as editor in chief.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
U.S. Open tennis champ Coco Gauff and the witness of prayer
When we see a spectacular athlete praying in public, we can see her as a sort of athletic Christian soldier, a “counternarrative” to a godless culture or shallow world—and miss the simple, moving experience of the athlete, who is Christian, who is praying.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Three lessons to learn when our prayers go unanswered
A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Behind the scenes of a Way of the Cross like no other at World Youth Day
When the Jesuits in Portugal were entrusted with planning the Way of the Cross, they knew it needed to be quite different from any previous prayer service.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
We say the same prayer every morning at America magazine. Here’s what it means to the staff.
When is the first time you pray during the day? For me, if it’s not when I wake up in the morning, it is at the beginning of my workday, with all my coworkers.
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God loves us—and we’re supposed to love him back. How do you actually do that?
It would have been nice if someone had told me how to go about learning to love God. Because I have discovered that, for most people, it is something that they have to learn.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
We should all renew the Friday penance. (But it doesn’t have to mean giving up meat.)
When the church allowed meat on Fridays, the intent was not to end the call for penance. Friday penance outside of Lent can now have a more personal nature, drawing each of us closer to God.