Matt O'Connor

Matt O'Connor

My name is Matt O'Connor, I am a spiritual director, with a focus on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I am a graduate of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Claremont, California, and an associate of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, California.

    © Matt O'Connor 2020-2021

    Divine Milieu

    Freedom

    The Lover and Their Beloved

    A post on St. Ignatius Loyola might seem to make the above title incongruous, but a love story is at the heart of the man. Ignatius, a Basque mystic who in the 16th century founded The Society of Jesus, whom we know as Jesuits, wrote that the everyday world is the medium in which love is encountered and embraced, and that in this exchange our humanity reaches its fulfillment.

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