Prayer Resources

Love – Week 10

Contemplation on the Love of God; God’s unceasing giving and gifting

Doing Nothing Often Leads to the Very Best Something

In the 2018 film Christopher Robin, we see Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin standing on a bridge chatting. Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he loves doing best. "Going to see you," he replies. Christopher agrees but then says, "What I like doing best is nothing."...

God’s Google Map of Your Life

A meditation on the Incarnation, using Google Maps.

Ignatian Spirituality and Memory

It is human nature to engage memory in bettering ourselves. Memory is an integral part of Ignatian spirituality and a primary way God speaks to us.

First World Problems

I've been rather amused lately by the First World Problems Internet meme. They are complaints only people of privileged circumstances experience. Urban Dictionary says they are "problems from living in a wealthy, industrialized nation that third worlders would...

What are the Spiritual Exercises?

You can’t know Ignatian spirituality without a knowing the importance of the Spiritual Exercises. But what are they?

Loving Mercy

A new reflection series for the Year of Mercy.

Catholic Mass & Time Travel

With the start of Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, I got thinking about time travel and how the Catholic Mass is literally a time machine of sorts. I remember when I was living as a Jesuit at Georgetown University when an old Jesuit priest gave a captivating...

Let That Be Enough

How does God work through your life story? Can we allow even “the lightest touch of God’s love” be enough for us?

An Epiphany Psalm

A poem for Epiphany, from Jeffrey Wallace.

Prayer is an invitation from God, inviting us into relationship with God. It gives us a chance to take part in the story of creation, have an effect on the world, be involved in its God-story, and most importantly, reflect on how we contribute. These resources hope to reveal the infinite facets of prayer, the many ways we reach God, and how God reaches into our lives: in love, with words, in silence, seeking our desires, at different times, in different places.