Our fourth Lunchtime Examen goes online today. This week’s question is “What do our feelings have to do with prayer?” Click on the button above. Share or bookmark this post:
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Kimberlee Conway Ireton writes about her family’s practice of praying the examen together: Our nightly practice of the examen around our dinner table helps Doug and me to recognize the gifts in our lives and to be more aware of God’s presence with us. It also helps our kids reflect on their lives, to be [...]
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Our third Lunchtime Examen is online today. This week, in addition to the guided prayer, I talk about how the examen answers the question, “what do I pray about?” Click on the button above. Share or bookmark this post:
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Our second Lunchtime Examen goes live today. This is a guided prayer, along with an explanation of some facet of the Ignatian examen. The question today is Where can I find God? A new Lunchtime Examen will be posted every Wednesday in Lent. We also just went live with our second presentation in the Ignatian [...]
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Today, Ash Wednesday, the first Lunchtime Examen goes live on IgnatianSpirituality.com. I’ve recorded six of these; a new one will be posted every Wednesday in Lent. The Lunchtime Examen is a guided prayer, along with some reflections about what the Examen is all about. The topic for today is “Why is this a good way [...]
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It’s time to make some decisions about what you’ll do to observe Lent, which is only nine days away. May I suggest that you give the Lunchtime Examen a try? This is a series of six guided prayers based on the Ignatian Examen. The prayers will be posted each Wednesday in Lent, with the first coming [...]
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The first review of A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is up. Meredith Gould likes it! Read it here. While you’re at it, browse through Meredith’s blog “Virtual Abbey.” Share or bookmark this post:
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- A sample of my new book about the Ignatian examen, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, is available for your reading pleasure. Click the image above to read the first two chapters. (If you can’t see the image, click here.) If you like what you see, click here to buy your own copy (and copies for [...]
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Nicholas Carr asks what the internet is doing to our brains. His answer: rewiring it for easy distraction. He observes that the way we read online–with constant distractions–is actually changing the way our neural pathways work, with the resulting effect of limiting our ability for sustained attention to a long reading. It is good to [...]
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I’ve just published a new book. It’s called A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, and it’s about the Ignatian examen, which has changed a lot of things for me in the last couple of years. One of my good friends, Paul Campbell, gave the book a nice mention on his People for Others blog yesterday, and that [...]
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