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Lent is a season of opportunity, a time to pause and discern the obstacles that block the path to greater intimacy with God and others.
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Jesuit & Ignatian
Spirituality Australia

MARCH 2023

Lent is a season of opportunity, a time to pause and discern the obstacles that block the path to greater intimacy with God and others. What are the stones I keep tripping over, the distractions, superficial desires, attachments, what fears and wounds, like fallen trees, block the way ahead?


May this Lent be a time of clearing the clutter of my life, opening the opportunity to intimacy, for in the words of Pope Francis, “The life that Jesus gives us is a love story, a life history that wants to blend with ours and sink roots in the soil of our own lives.”
252. CHRISTUS VIVIT

Intimacy with God

Welcome to the next instalment of the JISA discernment series. We often experience intimacy with God in the times when we trust him most, when for a moment we let go of the control we think we have over our lives, and in those moments of feeling deep peace and joy, we know intimacy with God. 

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Try This Spiriual Exercise

Join Jenny Gardner and Chris Gardner as they guide you through this Spiritual Exercise – Intimacy with God – approx. 15 minutes.

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Discernment with
Pope Francis: Desire

After prayer and self-knowledge, that is, praying and knowing oneself, here Pope Francis shares another indispensable ingredient for discernment: desire.

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Significant Encounters of Intimacy with God

From the depth of my heart… I know that we do not have to earn God's love, there is nothing we can do to make God love us more or less! 

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