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 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...
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...
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...
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...
