1 min readSelf-Directed RetreatsCOME FOLLOW ME: Are you called to encounter the Living God?GOD TOUCHES THE HUMAN HEART DIRECTLY I have called you friends ( John 15:15) Do you desire to: Know Christ more fully Deepen your prayer...
2 min readContemplative in ActionThe Examen for Self-Leadership:How am I called to be?The Vision - All is Gift We are always leading, ourselves and others in some form or another, either well or poorly. Experience alone...
2 min readContemplative in ActionFINDING GOD IN ALL THINGSAll is Gift - God is in Every One, Every Place, Every Thing. Central to Ignatian Spirituality is the realization that God is actively at...
1 min readContemplative in ActionTHE POWER OF PAUSE a Mini Retreat in the EverydayAllowing our soul to catch up with our body. Take pause, be still, breathe, and let Love's tenderness wash over us, comfort us. "Be still...
1 min readContemplative in ActionTRUST IN THE SLOW WORK OF GODPatient Trust: by Teilhard de Chardin a letter to his niece. Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient...
1 min readPrayerCOLLOQUY - Prayer as ConversationThe Colloquy is a prayer in the form of a free-flowing heart filled conversation by speaking exactly as one friend speaks to another,...
2 min readPrayer JOURNALING - WRITING TO GOD Devotional Journaling, as a spiritual practice, is simply noting down your experiences and reflections from your daily life in and about...
1 min readPrayerANIMA CHRISTI - Soul of ChristSoul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of...
1 min readPrayerSUSCIPE - An IGNATIAN PRAYERTake and Receive. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,my understanding, and my entire will,all I have and call my own. You...
8 min readSelf-Directed RetreatsENCOUNTERING GOD WHO IS LOVE LOVING: Retreat # 1 in the EverydayEncountering the unconditional, creative, active, inviting love of God. In the opening of one’s prayer time St. Ignatius taught that we...
7 min readSelf-Directed RetreatsTHE GARDEN OF GOD - Retreat #2 in the EverydayGod’s Ongoing Creation - Living in God In the opening of one’s prayer time St. Ignatius taught that we as enter into a prayer period we...
4 min readSelf-Directed RetreatsTHE MAKING OF ME - Retreat #3 for the Everyday We have been dreamt into existence by God and created to be the Beloved In the opening of one’s prayer time St. Ignatius taught that we...