Understanding Grace

• Ourselves We Cannot Save
• God Relates To Us Personally

• The Present Shame Of Sin
• Sin and Reconciliation: The Problem Of Moral Knowledge In The Church by Richard Shields, Ph.D. This paper helps to understand what happens when the Pope speaks and no one dissents by showing how the development of generally accepted moral knowledge requires responsible feedback. A good piece for critical reflection.

• Our Images Of God Affect How We Relate To Prayer And Life
• Presenting Jesus of Nazareth  -- How do you understand the real Jesus and your relationship to the world? Who do you imagine Jesus to be? How do you understand the real Jesus? And therefore how do you understand Christian spirituality and your own spirituality vis a vis your relationship to others and to the world? This digest will help you to reflect upon these questions more deeply. 
• Who Is Jesus For You? --- The Message Of Jesus

• Many Paths To Prayer -- On The Meaning Of Lectio Divina by Vincent Dwyer  This presentation shows how this approach leads almost naturally towards contemplative living and finding God in all of life.
• Accepting  The  Embrace Of God:  The Ancient Art Of  Lectio Divina by Luke Dysinger, O.S.B. This is a further elaboration of the meaning of this fundamental prayer process. It includes using Lectio Divina as a way of praying over one's personal salvation history and for group praying and sharing.
• What Are The Spiritual Exercises Of St. Ignatius? -- an explanation of the goal, process and structure in the form of an imaginary letter to one about to make the Spiritual Exercises.
• in the full thirty-days format
• in the format of daily life called annotation [19]
• annotation [19] a reformulation by John Reilly
• in a format helpful for study

• God's Communication And Our Interior Awareness -- What do we mean by the phrase "spiritual movements"?

• Does Prayer Help Our Personal Psychological Growth???
• Brokenness And Inner Healing
• Enjoyment As An Expression Of Worship  An article by the late Olga Warnke, IBVM on the importance of enjoyment for those who are serious about their spirituality in an age of competitiveness and workaholism.
• Suffering -- Our Human Situation
• Connecting With The Earth: Experiencing The Sacred -- Growth In Spirituality Involves Caring For Our Planet Home
• From Symbolic Rapport To Public Rhetoric .... In The Catholic Church  -- In our practices of prayer and spirituality we often forget that access to the Transcendent is facilitated though symbol.
• Toward A Spirituality For Resigned Priests  For those who have left the exercise of the priesthood here is an exploration of spirituality.
• Singing And Dancing With The Musicale Of Creation -- by John English, SJ  By probing the phenomena and meaning of the experience of creaturehood, this article brings together science and religious experience. An excellent vehicle for critical reflection, spiritual direction and personal prayer.
• The Spiritual Exercises: My Experience and Where We're Headed  -- by Charles L. Moutenot, SJ  A Jesuit reflects on his experiences of the Spiritual Exercises with his fellow Jesuits at the beginning of the millenium.
• Chrysalis -- by Erik Oland, sj.  -- A reflection on how spirituality combines the performing arts and the priesthood.
• From Contemplation to Action in an Era of Blindness: Environmental Decline and Christian Contemplation (in Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Merton) by Mark S. Muldoon. This presentation was given at a Symposium on Science, Spirituality, and the Environment