We collaborate with God’s grace and find conformity with Christ, by acknowledging our creaturehood, our temptations, our distractions and expectations, our doubts, our grudges, our compulsions, and by allowing “Christ to pray for us, with us, and in us.”
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Stephen Hawking and my mother taught me about suffering
My approach to the mystery of A.L.S. is a bit different than that of the famed physicist.
Posted inExamen, Faith
The Examen with Father James Martin, S.J.: The Fifth Week of Lent
Jesus understands you when you are disappointed.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
So we interviewed our boss
It’s taken over a year for us to get our boss, Matt Malone, S.J. on Jesuitical—and we promise it was worth the wait.
Posted inFaith, News
When the devil strikes, exorcists are ready for battle
Every diocese in the world still needs to have at least one trained exorcist on hand for the (rare) eventuality of an actual demonic possession, said Father Cesare Truqui.
Posted inArts & Culture
An Ignatian guide to ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
The film invites all of us to wear our hearts on our sleeves, to be honest and unabashedly earnest, to hope.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The Best of His Love: a reflection for the fourth Friday of Lent
Today’s psalm prompts us to consider the balance of talking and listening in our lives.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What can we learn from the sins of the saints?
Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I joined the Jesuit Volunteer Elder Corps at 68—and never looked back.
A teacher, a legal assistant, a salesman, a poet, a realtor, a development director and a woman who had been homeless walked into community together.
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I may never be able to thank the Good Samaritan who saved my life.
Through the compassionate act of a stranger, who stepped up to help me after two others had passed me by, my life was saved.