Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. The end of St. Ignatius’ pilgrimage had little to do with what he himself had imagined at the beginning of his life. God’s ways did not let him stay in Jerusalem, but led him...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. In his Autobiography, St. Ignatius of Loyola refers to himself as “the pilgrim.” With this title, he indicates that during his life he travelled an exterior and, above all, an...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. To be a missionary without leaving home at a time when the internet didn’t exist seems extremely difficult, if not impossible. However, St. Ignatius lived the last years of...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. In the early days of their apostolate, some called the first companions "Ignatians". However, when they had to choose a name, they didn’t refer to Ignatius but chose to call...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. You’ve probably heard someone say that they believe in God but not in the Church, or that they can follow Jesus Christ without belonging to or identifying with any ecclesial...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. In a letter written to John of Verdolay, St. Ignatius refers to the group of his first companions in these words: "From Paris, in mid-January, nine friends of mine in the Lord...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. If you are familiar with the Jesuits, you will surely know that their formation is famous for being long and deep. However, St. Ignatius, though a learned man, was never an...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, but do you know what they really are? It’s a method of prayer that Ignatius began to write in...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. One of the hardest things to do in life is to reconcile with one's own mistakes and sins. In fact, we are often more merciful to other people’s sin than to our own. We don’t seem...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. At the start of his conversion process, Íñigo experienced God's motions within himself, but somehow they were all mixed up with his earthly plans and human desires. You could say...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. St. Ignatius' path of conversion was not always easy or linear. During his time in Manresa an obsession with his past life caused him great suffering, since he couldn’t integrate it...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. Sometimes we imagine conversion as a before and after, as a blink of an eye that makes us leave our past life behind and start again from a completely different place. With Ignatius,...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. Does God communicate with us? Can we hear his "voice" within us? Does God have a plan for us? Can we discover the vocation to which God is calling us? These are undoubtedly important...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. All great stories have a beginning, but these beginnings aren’t always as we imagine or wish them to be. In his youth, Ignatius of Loyola dreamt of being the protagonist in a great...
Discover the life and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola with these video series. In this first video, Benedict Mayaki SJ talks about how St. Ignatius had big dreams which were not always well-ordered. And how this might be not too different from some of our own...
