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I Couldn’t Find God on My Twitter Feed. He Pulled Me Back into the Real World.

I Couldn’t Find God on My Twitter Feed. He Pulled Me Back into the Real World.

by Ty Wahlbrink, SJ | Aug 18, 2022 | Religious Life, Spirituality    ~ Approx. 5 mins

Each year, Jesuits are required to go on an eight-day retreat. Generally, a Jesuit will have a handful of hourlong prayer periods meditating over a Scripture passage or a contemplation from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. With the exception of communal...

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How can brushstrokes become a prayer? In this reflection, Sebastián Salamanca-Huet, SJ recounts how St. Peter Claver and the Rarámuri people helped him see that being Jesuit and artist are not two callings, but one vocation.

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