Seeing the Whole
It’s important to look at a piece of the jigsaw puzzle, but we must also know its context. In the spiritual life we must widen our gaze and see more of the whole picture.
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Category: Awareness
Disney’s Encanto Is All About Seeing
Let’s examine four main dichotomic themes in Disney’s Encanto. There are spoilers!
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Inner Furniture
Within each of us is “inner furniture” that inhibits our full life in God. They can be past hurts, stereotypes, bad memories, religious wounds, and even our images of God. We find many examples in the Gospels of people who are blind to the layout of their inner rooms.
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Disidentifying with the False Self
We all struggle with a “shadow side” that gets us anxious or judgemental. Ignatius invites us to externalise this part of ourselves a bit so we can let our true selves emerge, the part of us that is compassionate and loving.
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The Dream of the Incarnation
What is the significance of the Incarnation? It was not just one moment, but continues to unfold God’s dream for us and for the world.
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Alma’s Way is the Ignatian Way
A new PBS Kids show speaks to the Ignatian pattern we see in the Examen.
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Feelings and Emotions: Be Curious in Prayer
Ignatius tells us that feelings are important guides in the spiritual life. How do we discern what feelings are telling us? How do we know they are leading us to God? Be curious.
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The Fruits of the Spirit(s)
How do we know we’re moving toward union with God? Simple: we can know that by the fruits we see. Ignatius and Paul may use different words, but they’re in sync with the idea of “living by the Spirit”.
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The Weeds and the Wheat: Mindfulness and Non-Resistance
Whenever we bring suffering or negative feelings into our consciousness, we give it less power over us. When we take a mindful, contemplative, and non-resistance stance like Jesus, we discover a new kind of freedom.
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The Ministry of Remembering
It feels good to be remembered. Ignatius saw the memory as a gift, one that draws us into a deeper union with God.
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The Ego
The ego is another name for the evil spirit. This is an important truth to understand if you wish to grow in the spiritual life. The evil spirit tries to protect the ego, which is just another word for the masks of self-importance and superiority we wear as individuals and groups. The good spirit, on the other hand, helps us transcend the egoic preoccupation.
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How is God Present?
We tend to look for God in the big emotion-filled moments and can feel disappointed when we don’t notice God in the everyday. Yet Ignatius says we can find God’s presence in the real stuff of everyday life.
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This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
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What is God’s Will?
