Part 2: Events and Relationships This blog post is supposed to be about how to get creative during Advent in regard to special events and our relationships. And I have to say, this is a tough one. I think the tendency is to try too hard to do too much and make things too special. [...]
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Here at Loyola Press, we talk a lot about Ignatian spirituality—because we’re a ministry of the Jesuits, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola. One principle that comes up frequently is indifference. It’s the emotional and spiritual discipline of holding life lightly, of relinquishing our ongoing quest for control, and opening ourselves to whatever blessings come [...]
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This is a guest post by Mary Jo Pedersen. When I was four years old and sitting in my Grandma’s rocker, I thought I knew what love was. She lived next door, and, when I got into trouble at home, I would run there, and she would give me homemade bread and rock me in [...]
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Memorial Day customs vary from region to region, but where I grew up—in Cherokee, Kansas—families spent Memorial Day weekend decorating the graves of loved ones. In the Cherokee cemetery, up on the hill just outside of town, we would tend graves on both sides of the family that dated back at least three generations. Mom [...]
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Here is our last post involving Scripture and theology for this Advent season. Questionable Women In the first chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, we find: An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob [...]
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