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Discernment & The Interior Life

Discernment as Decision Making Discernment as decision making is the process of the act of judging what is true, ought to be, and moving...

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 14 Rules for Discernment of Spirits: Summary and Original

The 14 Rules for Discernment of Spirits summarized from Fr. Timothy Gallagher* Rules for becoming aware and understanding to some extent...

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...

Contemplation on The Annunciation to Our Lady

Mysteries of Our Lord from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Week One (M 262) Preparatory Prayer: Ask God our Lord for grace...

Contemplation of the Visitation of Our Lady to Elizabeth

Mysteries of Our Lord from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Week Two (M 263) Preparatory Prayer: Ask God our Lord for grace...

Contemplation on the Cross to the Sepulcher

Mysteries of Our Lord from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Week 3 (M 298) Preparatory Prayer: Ask God our Lord for grace...

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...

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,...