New Year – Picturing God

New Year Rainbow

January 2, 2017

“A rainbow in the ocean as a gift from God to begin the new year in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.” Submitted by Ana Isabel Colón.

Happy New Year

January 1, 2013

New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day seem an appropriate time to ask, in the words of Mary Oliver, “What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?” Happy New Year […]

A Letter to Jesus
By Fiona Basile This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Dear Jesus, For the past eight weeks, we’ve been walking together in a special way. We’ve been taking the time to get to know one another more deeply, delving into the heart and soul of who I am and who […]
Experiencing Easter
By Marina McCoy I can think of many instances when the Easter season has liturgically fit with my life: times when there was new life as I anticipated the birth of a new baby, or a family member’s health had improved, or a relationship was reconciled. Other times, the season has felt out of line […]
Contemplating the Passion with St. Ignatius
By Rebecca Ruiz In the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we contemplate the Passion of Jesus. St. Ignatius advises us to pray for the grace of compassion—the ability to suffer with Christ—as we encounter the Crucifixion. I ask for what I desire. Here is it what is proper for the Passion: sorrow with Christ […]
Love to the End
By Fiona Basile This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. This is a painful week in the Spiritual Exercises as I accompany Jesus in his final hours. In entering the Gospel passages of the Passion, I place myself in the scenes as an onlooker and witness a man who is […]
Lamentation: The Weight of Grief
By Shemaiah Gonzalez Niccolò dell’Arca’s Mourning over the Dead Christ, often simply called Lamentation, moves us into the depths of Good Friday’s grief. (See a video of this piece of art below the article.) There is no way to prepare for the visceral images of six life-sized terracotta sculptures mourning over Christ’s body. The grief […]

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