We are missing a powerful and vivid symbol of the love of Jesus, writes Father James Martin. For the Sacred Heart is nothing less than an image of the way that Jesus loves us.
Prayer
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A Prayer for Angry Catholics
We grow worried and concerned and bothered and angry and sometimes scandalized because your divine institution, our home, is filled with human beings who are sinful. Just like me.
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The Tridentine Mass: Why I Couldn’t Go Back
An ordinary Sunday morning. I decide to go to a church that celebrates the Latin Mass every Sunday.
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What does the Annunciation have to do with us?
What is it about the Annunciation that is so captivating? Here’s a meditation on how the story of Gabriel’s visit to Mary can help us in our own relationship with God .
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Father James Martin on St. Thérèse of Lisieux, his favorite saint (Sorry Ignatius!)
On this feast day of his favorite saint, James Martin, S.J., shares a reflection on Therese of Lisieux.
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Three Jesuit prayers for the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola
On our founder’s feast day, here are two of his most popular prayers, and one of his most popular meditations.
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The Joy of Transformation: Rediscovering the sacrament of reconciliation
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
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Love Will Decide Everything: Pedro Arrupe recovered the Ignatian ‘mysticism of open eyes.’
Remembering Father Pedro Arrupe on the centennial of his birth.
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There is a divine drama unfolding, and we have a part to play in it.
Balthasar believed our contemplation of God must take its cue from Christ, who entered into solidarity with human suffering.
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What I learned about prayer from Hans Urs von Balthasar
Balthasar seemed to know just what I was feeling: Christians, he said, often feel like a foreigner forced to speak in a language whose rules they have never learned, or a stuttering child who wants to say something but cannot.