The Feast of St. Ignatius is something of a family holiday. Ignatian folks all over the world celebrate this day in gratitude for the life and teachings of Ignatius of Loyola. From Patna to Budapest and from Lima to Quebec, Jesuits come together for food, fun, and festivities. In the Philippines there’s even a St. Ignatius Day Run, ranging from 3 to 10K, so everyone can participate.
It’s one of the biggest international holidays that no one’s ever heard of.
Here in the U.S. Jesuits come …

Long before St.Ignatius was laid up by a cannonball between the legs, he was wasting his time reading trashy novels.  In a world without “Lost” “Glee” “24″ or Housewives from anywhere, Ignatius, like the character Don Quixote, was reading the wildly popular novel Amadis of Gaul.
Exploits! Sword fights! Married ladies to pine after! The adventures of the fictional knight had it all.
Now you can experience the sensational writing that Ignatius gave up!  Finally, a way to see what serious saints were up to before their conversions. Perhaps next month we …

Which part of this Ignatian prayer of surrender is most alive for you at this moment? And why?

Take Lord, receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding, and my entire will,
whatsoever I have or hold you have given me.
I give it all back to you and surrender it
wholly to be governed by your will.
Give me only your love and your grace and
I am rich enough and ask for nothing more.
-St. Ignatius

“On a recent retreat, in light of being ordained for one year now, I sort of re-discovered the Suscipe as both …

May is the month in which the Church pays special attention to Our Lady, the mother Jesus. And so, as we approach this month and as part of the general celebration of Mary we offer the image of one of the Virgins dear to the heart of St. Ignatius.
Early on in his conversion Ignatius visited the shrine of this figure near his home in Loyola. This unassuming statue, known as Our Lady of Aránzazu is located in the village of Oñate in the county of Guipúzcoa, Basque country, in what …

“Ignatian spirituality is eminently centered on Christ. Love for Christ gives unity to everything in the life and work of Ignatius, and in our way of proceeding, for everything is a concrete application of that love on the level of attitudes and actions. Just as everything converges on Christ, so the love for Christ, in Ignatius’s intuition, unifies the dialectical pairs into which our apostolic action is diffracted:

prayer and action;
dedication to the perfection of self and neighbor;
use of supernatural and human instruments;
pluralism and unity;
one’s own effort and total dependence on …