3 minIgnatian PrayersDistractions in PrayerMany times, I hear from directees who say they have trouble sitting for an hour for mental prayer, Lectio, or a meditation in the...
6 minContemplative in ActionDryness in Prayer? Study, Read, PraySeveral of my new directees have expressed a distress in having a ‘dryness’ in their prayer life. They wonder why their prayers leave...
5 minIgnatian PrayersA Way for Prayer: Format and Reflection The Ignatian Prayer Period format is used during The Spiritual Exercises, it is structured with a beginning, middle, and end. When...
4 minIgnatian PrayersIgnatian Ways of Praying with Scripture St. Ignatius taught different methods of praying with the scriptures using our intellect, memory, and will. He considered all of our...
7 minIgnatian PrayersTHE EXAMEN - Daily Prayer of Reflection in 'Finding God in All Things' The Examen is a window of time for prayer, where we reflect upon how we encountered others in God in the everyday. It is a simple daily...
2 minIgnatian PrayersIGNATIAN MEDITATION ( Discursive Prayer) Listening & Discerning To The Heart Using Our Intellect Lectio Divina means holy reading. This is a method of prayer going back to...
4 minIgnatian PrayersIGNATIAN CONTEMPLATION (Imaginative Prayer) God speaks through our imaginations as well as through our understandings, memories, thoughts, intellect, desires, feelings, and...
6 minIgnatian PrayersConcerning Gospel Contemplation From Orientations, by Fr. J. Veltri, SJ Volume 2 Chap 23 http://orientations.jesuits.ca/ The author lays out the various meaning in the...
2 minSelf-Directed RetreatsTHE MAJESTY OF SCRIPTURESThese quotes and paraphrases are taken from "Praying the Bible: An Introduction to Lectio Divina" by Mariano Magrassi, OSB. The Majesty...
1 minContemplative in ActionTHE PRAYER OF SILENT LOVE Prayer of Quiet, Prayer of the Heart, also called the Prayer of Silent Love, is a mystical prayer of Silence. · Silent Love of...
1 minIgnatian PrayersCOLLOQUY - Prayer as ConversationThe Colloquy is a prayer in the form of a free-flowing heart filled conversation by speaking exactly as one friend speaks to another,...
2 minIgnatian Prayers JOURNALING - WRITING TO GOD Devotional Journaling, as a spiritual practice, is simply noting down your experiences and reflections from your daily life in and about...
