Our Lady Of The Way: feeling her footprint

Debra Asis
2 min readMay 24, 2024

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Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Way, Santa Maria Della Strada, patroness of the Jesuits… protector of travelers… for all of us who see ourselves as people on the road. Jim Manney,SJ

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this way
that way
any way
who can know the way?

Her way is the way of consenting
non-striving
non-doing
non-calculating

Her way is the way of waiting
watchful
eager
prepared

Her way is the way of receiving
flash
flurry
wink

Her way is the way of responding
touch
taste
kiss

this is the wayless way
Her footprint impresses
all that we know
we do not know

Poem by Debra Asis

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St. Ignatius Loyola’s quote is found in today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, SJ, a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things. And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.

Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.

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Debra Asis

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Debra Asis

Noticing Ordinary Holiness along the way I aim to read the gospel of life in nature, poetry, art and every messy moment of my ordinary life.