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Welcome! We invite you to make a 'Sacred Space' in your day, praying here and now, as you visit our website, with the help of scripture chosen every day and on-screen guidance. Something to think and pray about this week Ignatian spirituality, although it was birthed in Ignatius’ family home in the Basque countryside and brought to fruition in a cave near the small town of Manresa, is - I believe - an urban spirituality. Unlike other spiritual masters who withdrew from the world into convents and monasteries in order to find God, Ignatius and his early companions went into the piazzas and market-squares of Europe to preach the Good News. Ignatian spirituality, therefore, is an active spirituality which seeks to find God in all people, in all places, and in all situations. It is, however, also a contemplative spirituality because there is no hope of finding God anywhere if you are not attentive and ready. We have, then, a paradox: Ignatian spirituality rejoices in the God who creates us moment-by-moment (“momently,” as someone expressed it beautifully) and seeks to have us labor with Christ in constructing the Reign of God. It is a busy option…and yet, one in which we are to be open, mindful, and infused with prayer at all times. (As I write this I have an image of one of those people who simultaneously bangs a drum, plays the cymbals, and beats out a melody on the harmonica!) It can be done. I know people who are Jedi Masters as contemplatives in action and I also know that there are thousands and thousands of people like me who fall short every day, but who also have had enough glimpses of contemplation in action to keep wanting to try again and again. Sacred Space - daily prayer for 15 years Sacred Space began in 1999 and has offered new content every day since then. You can see some of the thoughts of other users of the site on our Feedback page.
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Tugaimid cuireadh duit Spás Tearmainn a chur isteach i do lá, agus deich nóiméad a chaitheamh ag guí anois láithreach, agus tú ag suí os comhair do ríomhaire, le cabhair ó threoir scáileáin agus le scrioptúr a roghnaítear go speisialta gach lá. Tugaimid cuireadh duit machnamh a dhéanamh an tseachtain seo Cuireadh síol na spioradáltachta Iognáidí i mbaile dúchais mhuintir Iognáid i gceantar tuaithe i dTír na mBascach, agus tháinig bláth agus barr air in uaimh bheag in ngar do bhaile beag Manresa. Ach mar sin féin, is feidir a rá gur spioradáltacht uirbeach í an spioradáltacht Iognáideach. Murab ionann is anamchairde spioradálta eile a thug cúl leis an saol agus dul isteach i gclochair agus i mainistreacha a lorg Dé, chuaigh Iognáid agus a chompánaigh thosaigh amach i gcearnóga poiblí na gcathracha agus i lár láithreacha margaidh na hEorpa a fhógairt an Dea-Scéil. Spioradáltacht ghníomhach mar sin is ea an spioradáltacht Iognáideach. Féachann sí le Dia a aimsiú san uile dhuine, i ngach áit, ar chuile ócáid. Ach is spioradáltacht mhachnamhach í chomh maith, mar níl seans ar aon chor Dia a fháil áit ar bith mura mbíonn tú aireach agus ullamh. Is amhlaidh atá paradacsa anseo: déanann an spioradáltacht Iognáideach lúcháir i nDia, a dhéanann muid a chruthú agus a athchruthú ó ala go hala; agus a spreagann muid chun saothrú le Críost d’fhonn Réim Dé a thógáil. Is cur chuige gnóthach é seo, óir iarrtar orainn bheith ar oscailt agus ar aire an t-am ar fad, agus – san am céanna – bheith ar maos le hurnaí. (Agus mé á scríobh seo, samhlaítear dom ceann de na hoirfidigh ildánacha sin ar féidir leo ceol a sheinm tríd an druma a bhualadh, na ciombail a chlonscairt, agus an t-armón a láimhseáil, i dteannta a chéile.). Ta sé indéanta! Táthar ann, agus tá aithne agam ar chuid acu, daoine gníomhacha atá ina rinnfheitheamhaigh. Agus tá na mílte eile ann, mo dhála féin, a chuireann chuige an rinnfheitheamh agus an ghníomhaíocht araon a chleachtadh go laethúil, agus cé go dteipeann orthu, baineann siad triail as arís agus arís, mar is léir dóibh, ó na spléachtaí atá faighte acu ar an rinnfheitheamh gníomhach, gur fiú an iarracht é.