1 minPrayerThe Prayer for GenerosityLord, teach me to be generous, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil...
2 minSelf-Directed RetreatsReviewing and Noting Down Your Prayer ExerciseThe Review is a distinct spiritual exercise used in the Spiritual Exercises by which the pilgrim reflects on his/her own experiences of...
3 minSelf-Directed RetreatsFollow Jesus Along the Way: A Self-Directed Lenten Retreat*Beginning at the conspiracy against Jesus and the anointing up Bethany, we continue on into the entry into Jerusalem, and then the...
8 minSelf-Directed RetreatsThe Seven Desires:Healing in the Present from the Past for the FutureThese seven God-given human desires are written in every heart and are basic needs to our survival and flourishing. to be seen and...
3 minPrayerDistractions in PrayerMany times, I hear from directees who say they have trouble sitting for an hour for mental prayer, Lectio, or a meditation in the...
6 minContemplative in ActionDryness in Prayer? Study, Read, PraySeveral of my new directees have expressed a distress in having a ‘dryness’ in their prayer life. They wonder why their prayers leave...
5 minPrayerA 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...
4 minPrayerIgnatian 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...
7 minPrayerTHE 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...
2 minPrayerIGNATIAN 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...
4 minPrayerIGNATIAN CONTEMPLATION (Imaginative Prayer) God speaks through our imaginations as well as through our understandings, memories, thoughts, intellect, desires, feelings, and...
6 minPrayerConcerning 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...
