Since Thursday morning, about 250 people have knelt, morning and evening, inside and prayed for their hearts' desires. A sampling of petitions read aloud offers a glimpse into the suffering and hard ...

St. Ignatius Loyola looms large in the life of every Jesuit. For most of us, he is daunting, awesome, even a bit frightening. He was a strict taskmaster who wept consoling tears every day over the ...

St Nikon (Belyaev) of Optina called Bishop Ignatius’ work “the ABC of spiritual life” – he held it in such high esteem. And it is Bishop Ignatius’ writings that all the other Optina Elders recommended ...

I once heard an older Jesuit quip, “I asked God to take my memory…. and he did!” He was referring to the Ignatian Suscipe, which begins, Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory. Situated ...

A cannonball blast cripples a young soldier. He falls to the ground in agony, his knee shattered along with his dreams of glory. In the weeks ahead, his leg heals. More dramatically, he picks up the ...

A study of the spiritual doctrine of St. Ignatius Loyola as articulated in the text of the Spiritual Exercises, but with reference to other texts such as Ignatius’ Testament, letters, and the ...

In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

Join a community of pilgrims on the Ignatian journey to find God in all things. Follow the footsteps of Ignatius from his years as a young page in Arevalo, Spain to his final days as Superior General ...

Lately I’ve been praying again. It is not that I ever stopped. What I mean is I have been praying formally again. I have gone back to the rosary, and to doing a few prayers like the “Prayer of St ...

Prayers and cultural events marked the Feast Day celebrations of St Ignatius of Loyola at several educational institutions in the city. The ceremony at St Xavier’s College and St Xavier’s College of ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Sunday that the cannonball that wounded Ignatius of Loyola 500 years ago not only changed the saint’s life but also the course of the world. The world’s first Jesuit ...