On the Ignatian motto, “En todo amar y servir: In everything to love and to serve.”

In preparation for Christmas, as we look back and recall our own transgressions, may we be grateful for the blessings we have received despite our infidelity. May the gratitude we have enable us to “make more and more progress in the kind of life [we] are meant to live.” 

Gazing upon Him on the cross, we are moved as in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: What have I done? What am I doing? What will I do for Christ?

It is said that times of distress are opportunities for personal growth.  But they are also opportunities to grow in faith.  The Lord assures us that after the time of distress, the Son of Man will come in power and glory.  Until such time, some of us might just prefer…

Might there be too much reason, too much “prudence” and self-interested calculation in the way I give of myself? In what areas of my life and to which persons might the Lord be calling me to be more generous, more foolishly loving, like the poor widow, like Jesus himself?

Are you often discouraged because after all these years, you’ve not inched that much closer to religious perfection? Allow me to very gently say, be not afraid, be at peace. As long as we stay connected with others, as long as we keep our friendships warm and sincere, as long…

Jesus’ response to the desire of Bartimaeus is instructive, “Go, your faith has saved you.” It implies, “You don’t have to sit at the side of the road begging anymore.” Here Jesus exercised His authority and gave Bartimaeus tokens of mercy no more, as he had been receiving from the…

In the Gospel today, Jesus uses the image of the cup in replying to James and John’s request. These two disciples ambitioned to sit beside Jesus in his upcoming reign and vowed to drink from the same cup that Jesus drank.

Especially in the midst of consolation, we can promise God anything. But the real test is how we respond when God will dare us to enter the zone of “perfection,” which are often our “bIind spots.”

In the ways we have grown to honour each other and learned to play fair, in how we have cooperated to build the nation together and worked for the common good, in the ways we have helped each other get up after a fall and learn from each other’s strengths…