Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century founder of the Jesuits, devised an “examination of consciousness”—a prayerful review of the day intended to help people recognize where they were finding, or needing to find, God in their lives. Other6 takes the essence of this centuries-old practice of the Examen and adapts it for today’s Internet-driven world by …
Monthly Archive: September 2010
Sep 05
Discipleship – At What Cost?
What do you find hard to let go of? What sort of things make it hard for you to be a disciple? In today’s selection from Luke’s Gospel, Jesus laid out three “trip wires” for discipleship: attachment to family, the hard consequences of discipleship, and attachment to possessions. All three have a caveat. If someone …
Sep 02
Being Christ to the un-Evangelized at Mass
I was at dinner the other night with friends and like most of our conversations we eventually turned to discussing our faith. A question was posed: So how do we evangelize people who are Catholic and who are at Mass, but who don’t seem to know about the Gospel or the Eucharist? We concluded: You …