7/31/26: St. Ignatius and the Search for Lasting Joy

Friday Mass. 7.31.26. Today's homily is on St. Ignatius of Loyola and his conversion story — how a wounded soldier dreaming of worldly glory discovered, through reading about the saints, the difference between joy that fades and joy that lasts. I talk about how this led Ignatius to develop the discernment of spirits, his teaching on never making decisions in extreme desolation or consolation, and how his whole life became summed up in one phrase: all for the glory of God.