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Summary: The Prayer of Recollection – Preparation and Considerations This post introduces the Prayer of Recollection , a contemplative...

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...

St. Ignatius taught different methods of praying with the scriptures using our intellect, memory, and will. He considered all of our...

Healing with Christ in the Present from the Past for the Future These 8 God-given human desires are written in every heart and are basic...

“I am created to praise, love, and serve God.” In beginning the Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius invites us to first pray over the 1st...

Several of my new directees have expressed a distress in having a ‘dryness’ in their prayer life. They wonder why their prayers leave...

At the beginning each prayer period, offering yourself to the Lord. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,my understanding,...

The Ignatian Prayer Period format is used during The Spiritual Exercises, it is structured with a beginning, middle, and end. When...

Listening & Discerning To The Heart Using Our Intellect Lectio Divina means holy reading. This is a method of prayer going back to...

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

The Colloquy is a prayer in the form of a free-flowing heart filled conversation by speaking exactly as one friend speaks to another,...