by Fr. Kenneth J. Hezel, SJ | For The Pacific Voice
First of a three-part series.

Q. What do you mean by spirituality?

There are two key questions in any spirituality: Who is your God? How do you come to your God? Within the Catholic tradition, God is the Father proclaimed by and revealed within the sonship of Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. But God is also the Spirit, the humbly accommodating and yet surprisingly inventive God of Pentecost fire and wind and inspiration.

Q. There is Carmelite, Franciscan, Celtic and other types of Christian Spirituality. What characterizes Ignatian spirituality?

Ignatius lived and taught others to live within this Christian relationship to God as Father, Son, and Spirit. Within that general relationship of Christian call, Ignatius articulated a strategy to find God, a way to walk toward God not only in explicitly religious moments like formal prayer or the reception of [...]

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