During this Advent season and on today’s feast, I am asking God for these graces given to Xavier. Join me in this prayer, if you feel God inviting you.

We compiled a list of the prayers, events, and other resources that are helping us deepen our prayer and grow closer to God during this season of preparation. Some of these resources are our own, and others are offered by our partners across the Ignatian community.

Writer and spiritual director Elaine Ireland offers short reflections on the daily readings during Advent.

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are enjoying some time off today with family and friends.

All are invited to pray and reflect alongside OIS’s young adult community during this season of Advent. Audio reflections and readings will available on a weekly basis to all who wish to join in prayer. Sign up today!

We are all called to holiness, and we can all ask God for the grace to be counted among the saints.

Contemplative Leaders in Action (CLA) recruited and launched its first Virtual Cohort this fall in a world now accustomed to life online.

In this video for the Ignatian year, Jesuit Father General Arturo Sosa invites us to see the world as Jesus sees it, avoiding the temptations of ideologies and focusing on living in solidarity with others.

Conformado por laicos, laicas y jesuitas de distintos lugares de los Estados Unidos, este grupo se reúne por Zoom una vez al mes para tener una conversación espiritual a partir de la lectura del libro “En Camino con Ignacio.”

The Office of Ignatian Spirituality’s Hispanic Ministry has 15 gathered lay people and Jesuits, a handful of members and coordinators of OIS’s Comunidades Hispanas Ignacianas, and others engaged in Ignatian ministry in Spanish around the country for faith sharing and spiritual conversation based on the book “Walking with Ignatius,” by Jesuit Father General Arturo Sosa.

Creation is a gift, and one we need to care for. As we notice the fall colors, let us take some time to thank God for this gift and reflect on the ways we use, or misuse, God's Creation.

Jesuit Father General Arturo Sosa publishes a video each month during the Ignatian Year as a companion to his book Walking with Ignatius. You are invited to walk the journey of the Ignatian year with him.

This month, Pope Francis asks us to join him in praying for, “missionary disciples.” Read reflections and watch the video from the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network.

This month, Pope Francis asks us to join him in praying for, an environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

The Ignatian Year invites us to get to know God in new ways. God is in all things, but it is through prayer that we recognize God's presence. So, let us begin with prayer.

Carlos Aedo is the Executive Director of OIS. In a recent conversation, Carlos shared his thoughts on the Ignatian Year, parenting, and discovering who we really are as children of God. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length. This article originally appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of JESUITS magazine, a publication of the USA East Jesuit Province.

This month, Pope Francis asks us to join him in praying for the Church, “that She may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.”

Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Let us reflect on how Jesus is calling us to do better — to seek the greater glory of God — and let us ask St. Ignatius to pray for us on our journey.

Carlos Aedo, Executive Director of OIS, shares a brief reflection on the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola and Ignatius’s invitation to lay people to discern their mission in the world.

“See Everything New in Christ” is a four-part series for Ignatian spiritual directors. These workshops are designed for spiritual directors who are companioning others in the Exercises, or who hope to do so in the future. Spiritual directors interested in learning about the dynamic of grace in Ignatian spirituality more broadly will also benefit from this series. Our presenter for this series is Damian Zynda, Th.D.