My name is Andy Otto. For two and a half years I was a Jesuit in the Society of Jesus. It has informed and transformed my life. I have a BA in Communication and a minor in Psychology. I love travelling, swing dancing, Disney, and have lived in Boston, New York, DC, Jamaica, and Orlando.
Incarnation occurs all the time, even in our decisions. We are in a whirl of confusion and feel like we’re in darkness. Advent is a time of sitting with those raw feelings and emotions because discernment begins with observation.
A four-week series on Ignatian discernment.
Perhaps it’s time to re-form our understanding of salvation – and our image of God.
Ever notice that everyone around Jesus is always grumbling, but Jesus takes a different approach?
Ignatius offers some guidelines on eating and our relationship with food.
Genuine freedom is trusting that in God all will be well. This frees us to love our enemies.
There are some who live lives of anger and hurt, and they seek to continue to feed their pain. This is a sign of the evil spirit or, in the language of Eckhart Tolle, the “pain-body”. They key is not identifying ourselves with it.
The deep desires God plants within our hearts are ultimately oriented to the unfolding of God’s Kingdom; this includes discovering who we’re meant to be.
For the Feast of St Ignatius, this is a re-post of the story of the Suppression and Restoration of the Jesuits.