A Missionary Discipleship Daily Examen A daily general examen is a beloved prayer from Ignatian spirituality. It is meant to be 15-20 minutes of your day, usually at the end, where you place your day before God and look for where he was especially close, and how you responded to his presence. It is meant…
Enrich your imaginative prayer experience by journaling about it. Here’s how, and examples from five different writers. This article is also available as an abridged PDF. If you like writing, you may find it particularly fruitful to write about the Gospel story as you experienced it during your prayer. You can record your experience in…
Is your group interested in trying imaginative prayer? Here’s a guide to doing imaginative prayer with a group using the book Imagine You Walked with Jesus. Imaginative prayer, also known as Ignatian contemplation, is a way of praying by prayerfully imagining oneself inside a scene from a sacred text (typically from one of the Gospels):…
The following imaginative prayer readings plans are excerpted from Imagine You Walked with Jesus: A Guide to Ignatian Contemplative Prayer by Jerry Windley-Daoust (Our Sunday Visitor, 2021). You can get these reading plans in a handy PDF or MS Word format in our store: Imaginative Prayer Reading Plans. Readings for Beginners The following readings are…
Here are 70 readings you can use for imaginative prayer (also known as Ignatian contemplative prayer). Page numbers refer to the location of the corresponding reading guide in the book Imagine You Walked with Jesus: A Guide to Ignatian Contemplative Prayer. Get this list as a free PDF. READING SCRIPTURE PG # The Annunciation Lk…
Let’s pray for those on the front lines of the coronavirus emergency: first responders, health care workers, grocery store workers, those caring for the elderly, priests, parish staff, and others offering spiritual care. Lord, bless the hands of those who are providing critical care and help during this time of crisis. Protect them from illness…
How do Catholics engage Holy Week in a Covid-19 pandemic without the lifeblood of grace, the sacraments? Perhaps it’s not in more online everything. A spiritual master from 400 years ago taught us how to not let this pandemic spiritually kill us. by Susan Windley-Daoust Two weeks ago, I ran into an old friend and…
St. Ignatius of Loyola took seriously Jesus’ admonition to “keep awake” for the coming of the Lord in every moment. You can, too, by practicing his Daily Examen. The following article is abridged from the introduction to The Daily Examen Journal: A 30-Day Spiritual Retreat. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), the Spanish soldier turned spiritual…
Imaginative prayer is a great way to “meet” Jesus face-to-face. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting started, including a list of readings and printable resources.