by Jennie Murphy | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog Articles, Uncategorized
The most common risk for the sacraments in today’s society is to trivialize them. Marriage is reduced to a great feast; communion to a social rite of passage together with companions; baptism to a presentation of the newborn to his circle of acquaintances and...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 24, 2024 | Blog Articles
Among the legacies left to us by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Spiritual Exercises is spiritual rereading. What is spiritual rereading? It is a way of discovering the movements of the Lord in our daily life through an examination of conscience. It is a simple prayer...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog Articles
I do not often administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, since I have been involved in youth ministry for years. However, it has played a certain role in my formation as a Jesuit and here I let three significant episodes emerge. The first goes back to the...
by Jennie Murphy | Jul 11, 2024 | Blog Articles
Before equivocation or sin, what makes us profoundly human and similar is the experience of pain and illness. An experience that becomes the extreme limit of a journey that takes us beyond our comprehension, but leads to the embrace of God! My experience as a man and...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 26, 2024 | Blog Articles
“The heart of the Church’s mission is prayer” Pope Francis. Learning to pray is as necessary as it is difficult. That is why we want to start with you a way to learn to pray. But in a way that is not a mechanical repetition of learned phrases, a...
by Jennie Murphy | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog Articles
This is the question that Father Pedro Arrupe SJ asked himself and asked the Society of Jesus. I quote some of his phrases from a homily given in Valladolid in 1970. “Devotion to the Heart of Christ is the summary of all Christian doctrine…...
