When spiritual directors suggest topics for future Office of Ignatian Spirituality programs, trauma and the Spiritual Exercises are two of the most highly-requested. So when Fr. Rob McChesney, SJ’s, book The Soul Also Keeps the Score: A Trauma-Informed Companion to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius was published by Liturgical Press earlier this year, the Ignatian Spiritual Direction Initiative at OIS invited him to lead a three-part series for spiritual directors titled Two Languages, One Voice: The Trauma Informed Spiritual Exercises. Registration for the series swelled to over 340 in the weeks before the series began, and over 240 people attended the first session on September 11.

The Hispanic Ignatian Community of Chestnut Hill, MA, recently mobilized to collect food for families in Somerville.

At the Office of Ignatian Spirituality (OIS), our commitment is to open these windows and make the Spiritual Exercises more available in more formats for more people. READ MORE!

Recently, OIS’s Ministerio Hispano Ignaciano team led an 8-day retreat, Escuchando a Dios como Ignacio, (Listening to God Like Ignatius) at the Saint Raphaela Retreat Center in Haverford, PA, with participants from Illinois, Washington, DC, and Florida.

Recently, the 2025 Pilgrim Spiritual Exercises Program, in collaboration with Casa Kino, Center for Ignatian Spirituality, concluded with gratitude and joy.

In the Fall of 2024, sixty-five families from eleven different Catholic faith communities participated in the pilot program of Goodfaith’s Family Matters, and they were accompanied by more than fifty spiritual directors affiliated with the OIS. Read more.

“Simply said, I have become increasingly more aware of the precious gift of the ministry of spiritual direction through supervision.” Read more.

The Office of Ignatian Spirituality is pleased to welcome Fr. Rocco C. Danzi, SJ, in the role of Promoter of the Spiritual Exercises.

Recently, Ministerio Hispano Ignaciano (the OIS Hispanic Ministry) held a silent Ignatian retreat for 18 people from New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, and Pennsylvania.

The Immigration Committee at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish in Chestnut Hill, MA, to which I belong, organized an immersion trip for its parishioners to the “Kino Border Initiative” in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.   

As members of the Ignatian family and the People of God, we offer our prayers of gratitude for the election of our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV.

The staff of OIS remembers and reflects on Pope Francis and his papacy…