One day I was riding a subway in New York City engaging in my favorite New York pastime—people-watching. You can really study people in subways because they sit in the same place for while and they almost always avoid eye contact. Across from me sat a Sikh man wearing an expensive suit and a turban. [...]
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I’ve long maintained that anyone can pray the daily examen at any time–even at awkward, stressful times, like sitting in traffic jam or standing in a long checkout line at the grocery store. Now comes Richard Kaufmann to prove my point. He did the examen while doing his taxes: Using the examen prayer as a [...]
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Tuesday you saw me talk about the examen in a short video. Today you can read blog posts about the examen by a Presbyterian pastor in Florida and an Episcopalian science teacher in Pennsylvania. What can I say? I love the examen. It’s examen week.
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In this second week of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, we’re reflecting on finding God in all things and looking at how the Examen can help us do that. In today’s video, I talk about the Examen and why it’s one of my favorite prayers. If you’re receiving this via e-mail, click through to watch the [...]
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A suggestion for Lent: learn to pray the examen. Yesterday we read about a Jesuit nurse who finds God’s presence in an emergency room with the help of the examen. Here are good pieces about the examen from an Episcopal priest in Massachusetts, a spiritual director in Vancouver, and a Catholic columnist in Minnesota. You [...]
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Jason Brauninger, SJ, is a nurse who works in the Trauma Center at a Denver hospital. It’s a place where you hear announcements like “Pediatric Code Blue. Emergency Room. Five minutes by ground” — “probably the worst words that can come across the overhead paging system,” he says. The Trauma Center tests the Ignatian axiom [...]
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Blogger Wayne Stratz found a book that helped his prayer life quite a bit. It helped mine too. And youth minister Daniel Haugh, who works at the American Church in Paris, has a suggestion for the starting the new year.
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Jesuits in St. Louis have developed a special series of seven Examen prayers for the last week of Advent. They are based on the seven messianic “O Antiphons” prayed during this week. The seven titles attributed to Jesus in the antiphons are Wisdom, Ruler of the House of Israel, Root of Jesse, Key of David, [...]
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St. Ignatius said that you begin an Examen by coming into God’s presence. That’s not as easy for us as it was in Ignatius’s time, Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ, says: Today a prior effort has to be made. I have to become present to myself in God. In my culture I am constantly dragged away [...]
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Here’s a fine overview of the Examen by Canadian Jesuit Artur Suski. (Click here to watch it on YouTube.)
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