Category: The Tough Questions
Finding Hope in Troubled Times
In an era of societal anxiety and political fear, authentic spiritual hope provides an anchor through connection to our inner centre where we meet God. This hope, as modelled by Simeon and Anna, emerges through joy and active compassion, enabling us to remain present to both suffering and possibility.
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Finding God in Life: Between Meaning and Mystery
Prayer is more about relationship with the divine than a means of control, though humans naturally seek to make meaning from random and profound moments alike. Embracing life’s mysteries while finding authentic meaning requires moving beyond simple answers to deeper questions of faith and existence.
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Finding God in the Gulag: Discovering Freedom in Captivity
Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit priest, endured solitary confinement and harsh conditions in Soviet prisons for 23 years. His trust in God’s will and his commitment to living a life of love helped him find hope and inner peace.
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Reimagining Original Sin: A Journey Towards Wholeness
Original Sin isn’t just about guilt, but a path to rediscovering our true selves and our relationship with God and all creation.
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Ignatian Resilience: Navigating the Tumult
Ignatius offers tools for us to stay resilient in the storms and uncertainties of life.
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Suffering and God’s Loving Accompaniment
What’s is God’s role in suffering? It might be helpful to see God as a parent who accompanies their child in pain.
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Seeking What I Already Have
We are all seekers, longing for inner peace and purpose. What if we already had what we were seeking all along?
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Conforming God to My Unfreedoms
We sometimes try to conform God to our decisions, rather than the other way around. In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius explains how we often make a means an end in itself. We need both internal and external freedom.
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War and Ego
We’re all prone to the tactics of the evil spirit. For some it leads to catastrophic evil like war.
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The Neighbourhood
Through his neighbourhood, Mister Rogers teaches us how to be people of love and how to truly know one another. His neighbourhood was kind of a metaphor for the kingdom of God.
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The Tension of Poverty and Abundance
The pandemic has revealed the tension between our experiences of poverty and abundance. It’s fitting to reflect on that this Advent season.
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Threat or Freedom? – Two Ways of Reading the Gospel
Do you read the Gospel and Jesus’ statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.
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Kids Journal
This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
