Quiet Nothingness

Quiet Nothingness

by Becky Eldredge

There are times in our prayer lives that we feel God is absent, or we struggle to feel or hear God in prayer. Those dry periods of prayer are incredibly challenging, especially when trying to discern. It is not until the dry period of prayer ends that I understand the value of what feels like God’s silence.
In a conversation once with my spiritual director, we celebrated the end of a dry period of prayer. As we unpacked the dryness, I said, “It was quiet nothingness, but it was everything.”

Jesuit Strives to Care for Souls in the Digital Age

January 28th, 2013 | Author: bsindelar

A year ago, The Jesuit Post, a website for the Facebook generation “about Jesus, politics, and pop culture; the Catholic Church, sports, and Socrates,” launched. Jesuit Sam Sawyer, one of the four Jesuit scholastics who started the site, says during their years of formation the four have repeatedly asked one another: “How does the Church address itself to a contemporary culture that is no longer in contact with the institutional forms we’ve grown up with?”

"Drop your name "

The disciple who had his " sadhana" [સાધના ] [ prayer and meditation ] for 35 years in the mountains came back to his master and said:

" Some of the visitors who came to my ashram are spoiling my name.
They are spreading all kinds of rumors about me"

The master said:
"Drop your name "

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Now every day, UCAN offers a raft of new content developed to meet that hunger, especially for visitors to our main site and those who come to UCAN through social media.

Every day you will find aids to prayer, approaches to Scripture, a focus on saints, especially those from Asia, feature stories that can enrich your spiritual life.

“Finding God in all things”

“Finding God in all things” 
is a phrase that summarizes Ignatian Spirituality.

This phrase invites a person to search for and find God in every circumstance of life, not just in explicitly religious situations or activities such as prayer. “Finding God in all things” implies that God is present everywhere and, though invisible, can be found in any and all of the creatures which God has made, principally because God desires to be known; the Incarnation of God in the person of Jesus exemplifies this. All creation reveals at least a little of what its Maker is like – often by arousing wonder in those who are able to look with the “eyes of faith”. 

http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/

http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/


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New podcast fromGurjarvani

http://gurjarvani1.podomatic.com/entry/2013-01-28T02_34_19-08_00

Click on the link above for songs for devotional listening. 
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Deepak Chopra Class on the Mystery of Consciousness

CALLED TO THE FRONTIERS

CALLED TO THE FRONTIERS

January 25, 2013
Conversion of Paul the Apostle

Dear Friends of the Vocation Office,

Fr. General Nicolás has used this phrase "Called to the Frontiers" quite a bit since he was elected the Superior General of the Society of Jesus at the 2008 Jesuit governance meeting GC35. His phrase ignites plenty of conversation around the globe in Jesuit works, Jesuit and Lay Colleague conversations, not to mention in Jesuit dining rooms. However, this phrase also captures the attention of those outside the Jesuit world amongst folks looking to join us and folks both inside and outside the Church looking to watch what we do. The word frontier has a rich ability to identify those areas in our world, our culture and our church that exemplify new realities or new possibilities to respond to Christ. Or, as Pope Benedict also proclaimed at that same GC35: "...to reach the geographical and spiritual places where others do not reach or find it difficult to reach."

Inner flowering

Inner flowering

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