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Dryness in Prayer? Study, Read, Pray
Several of my new directees have expressed a distress in having a ‘dryness’ in their prayer life. They wonder why their prayers leave...
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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...
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Prayer Format for the Daily Mass Readings
Night Before Preparations Read the next day's gospel selections for understanding. If there is more than one reading for the day,...
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Reviewing and Noting Down Your Prayer Exercise
The Review is a distinct spiritual exercise used in the Spiritual Exercises by which the pilgrim reflects on his/her own experiences of...
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The Rosary: A Gospel Contemplation on the Life of Christ and Mary, the Mother of God
“With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary, are led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ, and to...
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Praying with Your Blessed History
At the beginning each prayer period, offering yourself to the Lord. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,my understanding,...
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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...
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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...
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The Examen for Self-Leadership:How am I called to be?
The Vision - All is Gift We are always leading, ourselves and others in some form or another, either well or poorly. Experience alone...
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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...
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