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Hope for the New Year
This morning, I noticed that I have been writing a lot about hope lately. Often, I write thinking of the audience. I think of what
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01/13/2021
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Hopeful Preparations
Another Advent is upon us, and with it comes another opportunity to prepare for Christmas. It took too many years for me to understand why
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12/02/2020
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Lingering Yearnings
My commute to work has changed a lot with the fall. The stretches of narrow roads winding through the green hills and forests have become
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10/21/2020
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Letting God into My Life | JP de Legarreta: Why Ignite?
There are dozens of reasons to be a part of the Ignite Internship: the holistic care of the staff; the opportunities to learn new things
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03/30/2020
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Paralysis and Surrender
I’ve been meaning to get a spiritual director for quite some time, but always found an excuse to put it off: I was a second-semester
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10/23/2019
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Hospitality of Presence
As I looked back at my first year here and planned for the upcoming retreats, I spent some time reflecting on my role as a
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09/09/2019
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JP de Legarreta: Why Ignite?
Often, an innocuous decision ends up drastically changing your life. I spent the majority of 2018 in search for answers. I was out of work
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03/20/2019
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Becoming a Better Servant
I was having a conversation with a close friend the other day about the internship here at the Jesuit Spiritual Center. While discussing some of
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02/20/2019
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Bringing Two Worlds Together
I love bringing two important parts of my life together. It can be introducing my friends to home-cooked Mexican meals, taking people to see the
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01/09/2019
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Finding Freedom in Service
Freedom has been driving many of my reflections lately. Freedom is widely used and understood to mean autonomy of choice. Children have a lot of
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11/28/2018
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