Distractions in Prayer
Many times, I hear from directees who say they have trouble sitting for an hour for mental prayer, Lectio, or a meditation in the...
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Dryness in Prayer? Study, Read, Pray
Several of my new directees have expressed a distress in having a ‘dryness’ in their prayer life. They wonder why their prayers leave...
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A 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...
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Ignatian 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...
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THE 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...
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IGNATIAN 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...
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IGNATIAN CONTEMPLATION (Imaginative Prayer)
God speaks through our imaginations as well as through our understandings, memories, thoughts, intellect, desires, feelings, and...
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Concerning 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...
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THE MAJESTY OF SCRIPTURES
These quotes and paraphrases are taken from "Praying the Bible: An Introduction to Lectio Divina" by Mariano Magrassi, OSB. The Majesty...
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THE 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...
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COLLOQUY - Prayer as Conversation
The Colloquy is a prayer in the form of a free-flowing heart filled conversation by speaking exactly as one friend speaks to another,...
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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...