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.”
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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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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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I like Phil Fox’s Rose’s column on practical spirituality on BustedHalo.com. Recently he wrote an article about the Examen in which he quoted this advice about self-scrutiny from a Jewish commentary called the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: It is proper for a person who fears God to examine all his actions of the previous day before [...]
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The New England Jesuits have published an excellent podcast on using the Examen in Advent. This is the second of four weekly Advent podcasts with an Ignatian flavor. Go here for details. Don’t forget the the daily Advent meditations that rotate through dotMagis and four other blogs sponsored by Loyola Press. Today’s meditation is by Paul [...]
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Toward the end of her life, Dorothy Day remarked that “I’m just happy to have had our good Lord on my mind all these years.” Patrick McGrath, SJ, sees that she captured the fundamental perspective of Ignatius Loyola: In our spiritual life we ought to pray for greater awareness and attentiveness. Do we really experience [...]
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The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on emotion and feeling which are the windows to our souls but which windows we males often keep closed or shut off from others. This examen opens those windows to God [...]
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Something to think about | Look not outward but within. By examining the soul and its nature, we begin to discern reflections from beyond the veil. “Self-knowledge is at the root of all real religious knowledge.” And this is why the beginning of true religion cannot lie in a book, or in science, or in [...]
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