After 61 minutes, just as emergency room personnel were about to pronounce him dead, James Fulton Engstrom began to breathe and his heart rate shot up to a normal level for a newborn.
Prayer
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Are you serious about living a healthy spiritual life? Seek a spiritual director.
If you’ve been praying for any length of time, you might have heard about the practice of spiritual direction. So you might wonder: What is it? And is it for me?
Posted inFaith, Interviews
A new dimension of Ignatian formation: laypeople training laypeople
Jim Caccamo speaks about the role of Ignation spirituality for laypeople in Jesuit institutions.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Every good work contains the possibility for an encounter with God.
By performing the good work of hospitality, Abraham glimpsed the face of God.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Compassion is the deeper meaning of God’s law.
To follow Christ means to lift up our brothers and sisters with extravagance like the good Samaritan’s and compassion like Jesus’ own.
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God meets people where they are
God meets people where they are. For some people, God meets them through relationships, with others through books; with others through nature. Maybe this week you can look around to see the very personal and unique ways that God encounters you and invites you to believe.
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The Sacred Heart is an invitation to ask ourselves, ‘How did Jesus love?’
The Sacred Heart is an invitation to ask ourselves, “How did Jesus love?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Why we shouldn’t change the translation of the liturgy again
It is tempting to want to change the words of the 2011 Roman Missal. But we shouldn’t—part of the point of ritual is its seeming changelessness.
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St. Augustine’s puzzle: how can we understand the Trinity?
The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Even when it costs, discipleship leads to joy.
Taking up the proclamation of God’s reign placed the disciples in an unexpectedly rich relationship with God and the world.