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One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy’s great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with a powerful conscience and a strong thirst for truth. He abandons the Orthodox Christianity of his childhood and seeks an answer to the meaning of life. He finds none. For [...]
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Commenter Michelle suggests that readers who are interested in learning to pray the Examen might listen to this audio of a guided Examen produced by the British Jesuits. If you are interested in this most essential Ignatian prayer, browse the Examen material listed on this page of IgnatianSpirituality.com. Try this video from St. Ignatius College [...]
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Every day at 2:05 p.m., students at Strake Jesuit High School in Houston pause and pray an Examen. This is the audio that leads everyone through the prayer, along with a slideshow. (If you can’t see it, click here.) Share or bookmark this post:
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I took my girls to a place called Purgatory Chasm and had a metaphor experience. Metaphor experiences are of course those things you do which, once they are accomplished, emerge as perfect metaphors for life. And I tend to encounter them frequently because I look for them, and that, according to my wife, makes me [...]
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Something to think about | “The Examen of relationships asks that you grow conscious of a reality we take so much for granted that we do not think about it at all. How often do you note that the sun rose this morning? How much do you value the water that comes from your tap? [...]
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Something to think about | “Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue. This something is much more closely connected with evil than is the flesh. That is why every time that we really concentrate our attention, we destroy the evil in ourselves. [...]
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Fr. Jim Blumeyer, SJ, suggests some questions for your daily Examen: Where in the last 24 hours did you experience God’s touch in the events of today? What various energies dominated your mind and heart today? For instance: • Experiences of satisfaction and dissatisfaction at home, at work. • Experiences of interpersonal relationships with others, [...]
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How do I know God is speaking to me? It’s not easy to tell, and it’s hard to explain to others when it happens. I suppose that’s the question at the heart of spiritual direction and praying the Examen. I recently read something in a memoir that helped me understand something about hearing God. The [...]
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Something to think about ¦ “The examen frequently identifies sin at the source of an apparently faultless failure. It also quite consistently exonerates me from sin in any given failure. The examen must be able to help me make that distinction: Is my experience my sin, a sin, or sin in me? The question begs [...]
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It occurred to me just a few days ago that without thinking about it, my family and I were doing a group Examen at our dinner table. I don’t know why it took me so long to recognize this fact, but now it’s obvious to me that one of the very important reasons families and [...]
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