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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...

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...

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...

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...

IGNATIAN CONTEMPLATION (Imaginative Prayer)

God speaks through our imaginations as well as through our understandings, memories, thoughts, intellect, desires, feelings, and...

COME FOLLOW ME: Are you called to encounter the Living God?

GOD TOUCHES THE HUMAN HEART DIRECTLY I have called you friends ( John 15:15) Do you desire to: Know Christ more fully Deepen your prayer...

FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS

All is Gift - God is in Every One, Every Place, Every Thing. Central to Ignatian Spirituality is the realization that God is actively at...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

ANIMA CHRISTI - Soul of Christ

Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of...