Michael Rossmann, SJ, took up spinning to keep in shape during the winter. He lists 11 lessons he relearned while he rode his stationary bike. Number 3: It’s important to push through to the very end. . . . Ignatius instructs those going through the Exercises to pray for an hour at a time and [...]
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The final contemplation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius is the Contemplation on Divine Love, or the Contemplation on the Love of God. It captures all of the movements we’ve been praying through during our retreat in daily life. In the video below, Kevin O’Brien, SJ, explains the exercise as contemplating God’s love, which [...]
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Happy Easter! We’ve come to the final week of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. Jesus is risen! And in exploring our theme of “God’s Love and Our Response,” we take the lessons from the entire retreat and go forward, changed by the experience. This retreat has been introduced during Lent and Easter, but it will have [...]
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In the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius Loyola teaches ways to pray with our feelings. Engaging our emotions in prayer is key for conversion and discernment. I explain in today’s video contribution to An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. If you’re receiving this via e-mail, click through to watch the Week 7 video Praying with Your Feelings.
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Holy Week begins today and so does Week 7 of our Ignatian Prayer Adventure online retreat. You might think about following the retreat this week even if you haven’t done it so far. The readings follow Jesus through his passion and death. They will help you pray during this sacred time. Next week the retreat [...]
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Imaginative prayer is a big part of the Ignatian Adventure retreat, now in week six, and it’s been a big topic on this blog. I remembered a helpful thing that Lisa Kelly wrote a while ago–it’s fine to imagine what isn’t in the scripture as well as what is: I am also instructed to contemplate [...]
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For this Week 6 of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, we consider the public ministry of Jesus, focusing on his interactions with people. And because we’re all so busy, we start by joining Jesus on a busy day. Please note that all of the retreat materials will remain online after Lent and Easter, so if you [...]
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To follow Jesus we must know him, and we get to know him through our imagination. Imaginative Ignatian prayer teaches us things about Jesus that we would not learn through scripture study or theological reflection. It allows the person of Christ to penetrate into places that the intellect does not touch. It brings Jesus into [...]
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The theme of Week 5 of our Lent-Easter Ignatian Prayer Adventure is “What Do I Really Want?” This is an excellent question; a good one to ask at the halfway point in Lent. Ignatius believed that once we rid ourselves of disordered attachments and discover what we really want, we’ll discover what God wants for [...]
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An Ignatian Prayer Adventure is at the halfway point. We move into Week 5, exploring the question: What do I really want? We begin with the meditation on the Call of Christ, Our King. How has the retreat experience been for you so far? Please share your questions and reflections in the comments.
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