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Putting on the Mind of Christ
How to Amend and Transform Our Automatic Behaviors "For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” (Rom 7:15) Have you ever felt like St. Paul and said to yourself: "I keep doing what I do not want, and not what I want to do"? Is there a part of you that you just can't seem to change those automatic responses? Do you desire to grow in holiness, yet just find yourself stuck in a habit? This post is about how we can help ourselves, through the Lord's grace, to b
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The R's in Returning to the Rhythm of the Relationship
During a recent spiritual direction session, a directee shared her longing to return to a regular routine in her life—particularly in...
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Prayer of Recollection: Part I Preparation and Considerations
Summary: The Prayer of Recollection – Preparation and Considerations This post introduces the Prayer of Recollection , a contemplative...
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A Daily Prayer Format for the Spiritual Exercises
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 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 emotions....
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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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