by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Apr 3, 2024 | Easter Reflection Series, God is Still Speaking, Guest Reflection Series
by Fr. Michael Graham, SJ, ISP Board of Directors reflecting on the Gospel reading for April 3 – Luke 24:13-35 Like the hearts of the Emmaus disciples, our hearts are complicated places, filled with hopes and dreams and desires. Some of those are close to the...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Dec 13, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Dawn Davis For me, Advent is about LOVE. Love can be found in the most unlikely places. On a street corner, I saw love. A random stranger stopped to help an elderly woman cross the street. Without hesitation, he greeted her with a smile and escorted her across the...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Nov 30, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
Finding Hope: My First ISP Retreat by Dorothy Celestin In 2018, I was coming out of the hardship of drug addiction. I had nowhere to turn, I didn’t know which way to go, and I didn’t have much to live for. I was staying in a halfway house full of chaos–until I...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Nov 30, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
ISP invites you to reflect and pray with our reflection series for this Advent, this time of waiting in the darkness. Maybe you can recall a time in your own life when you felt a sense of being stuck in the dark, afraid, not knowing what was next. And then, in the...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
For over a decade, the Ignatian Spirituality Project in Chicago, along with Old. St. Patrick’s Church, Harmony, Hope & Healing, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Franciscan Outreach, gathered around the longest night of the year to host the Homeless...