🌍 Our Mission

✨ Who We Are

IgnatianSpirituality.Africa is part of a global family inspired by the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century Basque pilgrim whose encounter with God changed history.

Ignatius discovered that God meets us not in rare or distant moments, but in the everyday movements of the heart — in joy and sorrow, work and rest, community and solitude.

Our mission is to share this grace online: to offer a daily sacred space for prayer, to form people in discernment, and to nurture a spirituality that transforms both the person and the world.

🙏 Daily Online Prayer

Each day, we offer a gentle, guided prayer in six simple stages, following the Ignatian rhythm that leads from stillness to encounter:

1. The Presence of God — Becoming aware that you stand in Love’s gaze.
2. Freedom — Asking for inner openness to God’s invitation.
3. Consciousness — Reflecting on where God has been at work in your day.
4. The Word — Listening to the daily Gospel.
5. Conversation — Speaking heart-to-heart with God.
6. Conclusion — Resting in gratitude and peace.

You can pray anywhere — at your desk, on a bus, or in the quiet of dawn. God is present everywhere, even on a phone screen. “When we know this, we can pray anywhere.”

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📖 Living the Word

Alongside daily prayer, our Living Word reflections open the Scriptures with Ignatian insight and African experience — exploring how God’s Word speaks to our communities, cultures, and struggles today. Each reflection invites you to listen, discern, and act with compassion.

💒 In Communion with the Church

IgnatianSpirituality.Africa is rooted in the Jesuit mission of faith and justice and stands in solidarity with the Church across Africa and the world.

We share the spirit of the global online apostolate Sacred Space, founded by the Irish Jesuits in 1999, now praying in over 15 languages. Our African expression carries the same heartbeat — to make digital spaces places of encounter with God.

🕯 Prayer Beyond the Screen

Our prayer community connects with other ancient and living traditions of contemplation: the stillness of Benedictine prayer, the inner fire of Carmelite mysticism, the joyful simplicity of the Poor Clares, and the everyday discernment of Ignatius, who teaches us to find God in all things.

Whether online or offline, we seek to form contemplatives in action — people whose prayer flows into service, justice, and hope.

💖 Our Wider Mission

Retreats & Novenas — Seasonal online (and in-person) retreats and nine-day novenas.
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network — Joining the monthly intentions of the Holy Father.
Publications — Digital and print guides for prayer through the year.
Formation Resources — Materials on discernment, vocation, and spiritual accompaniment.

All are offered freely so that everyone, everywhere can find a path to God.

🌍 How You Can Help

1) Share the Word

Tell a friend, mention us in your parish or community.

2) Pray with Us

Your prayer keeps this mission alive.

3) Support Us

Donations sustain translation, hosting, and development.

Donate or Partner With Us “Sacred space is wherever a person and God meet.”

✨ Stay Connected

Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter “In All Things” for reflections, retreat notices, and Ignatian insights throughout the liturgical seasons.