imaginative prayer

Imaginative Prayer

by Jim Manney

One of the best things about the Spiritual Exercises for me was learning about imaginative prayer. In today’s video, I talk about my experience learning to pray with the imagination. This week of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure invites us to use imaginative prayer as we reflect on the Incarnation and Jesus’ birth and early life. [...]

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The Prayer of Imagination

by Jim Manney

Ruth Workman, a spiritual director,  describes how Ignatian prayer invigorated her prayer life: Next we were introduced to an Ignatian practice, a prayer of imagination. I was asked to read the passage where Jesus says, “Take up your cross and follow me.” I was then told to engage my senses. What did I see in [...]

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Ways of Prayer: 10 Videos

by Jim Manney

The CatholicTV website is offering 10 short videos about prayer featuring Fr. Jim Martin, SJ.  He talks about centering prayer, nature prayer, the rosary, eucharistic adoration and other ways of praying.  You’ll find all 10 videos here.  This is his piece on the examen. (If you can’t see the video, click here.)

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The Holy Family

by Tim Muldoon

This past Sunday was the feast of the Holy Family, and it calls to our imagination that “longest sermon” of Jesus first thirty years, as Cardinal Seán O’Malley called it. I remember, as a teenager, wondering what Jesus was like as a teenager.  (What did he do with rushing hormones, for example?)  As a father, [...]

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Links for the Weekend

by Jim Manney

Jack McLain, SJ, on zombies (“the faceless, unsexy, plodders of the horror genre”). Nathan O’Halloran, SJ, reads 1 Samuel 15:3 and asks, “Does God approve genocide?” Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD, on the medical and ethical aspects of living longer lives. A short guide to imaginative prayer. An Ignatian retreat for women in recovery. Questions for [...]

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Ignatian Contemplation

by Jim Manney

Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual  tradition.  In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of the gospels, and immerse yourself in it imaginatively using all the senses.  You feel the heat of the day, smell the livestock and clouds of dust on the road, [...]

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