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St Ignatius, Statue with Clouds at the Jesuit Center. Photo by Wayne Stratz I am sure there are plenty of people born on feast days of s...

“Go forth and set the world on fire.”   St. Ignatius of Loyola

Hope in the Dessert by Margaret Almon and Wayne Stratz I am grateful to my friend Michelle for getting me to think about prayerful play ...

The crowd was a bit thin on Monday night when we finished off the contemplation that ends the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius. I promis...

A friend asked about the examen and it grew into several Monday evenings at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, where I did my best to present t...

I have been trying to pass on my love for Jesuit spirituality to my friends, who gather at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church on Monday evenings....

a lousy night of sleep, well, till 4:19 AM it was going fine sent the end of the work week to a groggy point in time. I was glad to see Gan...

I leap into the conversation..."Do you know the traditional place to plant hollyhocks?" Left work on Friday and headed to our st...

When I step away from this post, I will enter my last prayer time for the exercises in everyday life. Tomorrow is my last meeting. what hap...

I am telling my spiritual director about my time in the cemetery, and she feels I had a sponge moment. Ignatius said that when we are with...

so, I am feeling a bit disappointed for I could not find something on the web. isn't everything there. As we got set to drive to Lanc...

I am tired, and a bit frustrated with technology, but I do believe my (first ever) powerpoint presentation, which is on hot peppers, is save...

I had a thought the other day while in Philly... I wonder what St Ignatius would have said about blogging through the spiritual exercises.....

A few days ago I searched through my LP's and there came a memory. It was the Pretenders.... Learning To Crawl... that I played which c...

Reading Jim's thoughts over at brainwaves the other day led to this question.... "Quick! What linguistic term would you assign your...

The garden is sleeping away winter time and colleges are quiet also, so I have filled my life with friends and stained glass...

I don't like feeling overwhelmed, so the mouse chose a bad week to enter our kitchen Tuesday night. Please don't tell me the mouse d...

If I had done it the quick way, then I would be nearly done, however, I have barely begun. Ignatius's spiritual exercises can be done a...