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I recently saw this article What Prayer Is written by Thomas Green, SJ, more than 30 years ago. It’s a preface to his book Opening to God. It’s excellent. I recommend it for your Lenten reading. Hearing or listening is a good metaphor for prayer. The good pray-er is above all a good listener. Prayer [...]
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Ash Wednesday was only yesterday, so it’s not too late to start a Lenten prayer program. We suggested several last week. Here are two more–both from Jesuits. The Spiritual Exercises blog offers a daily program of prayer and reflection based on the Spiritual Exercises. It’s a collaborative effort of four Jesuits. The reflections are meant [...]
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Sometimes it’s a challenge to keep prayer simple. Once I described my struggles with prayer to a Jesuit friend. He listened patiently, looked at me quizzically over his half-spectacles, and said, “you’re thinking too much, James.” This brief introduction to prayer from Mary Flick of St. Louis University has helped me keep prayer simple. Take [...]
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Jim Martin, SJ, on finding God in hard times. An evangelical compares three versions of the Anima Christi prayer. What Nathan O’Halloran, SJ, learned in 2009. Jake Martin, SJ, on Crazy Heart. Joe Koczera, SJ, on Alfred Delp’s idea of happiness.
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I’m not one to make new year’s resolutions, but because my calendar now says 2010 I can’t help but think a little about them. I just finished a review of Christopher Jamison’s fine book Finding Happiness, which is perfect for those of a resolution frame of mind. Written by a Benedictine abbot (of Worth Abbey, [...]
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The British Jesuits have produced a five-day program of Ignatian prayer called “The Way of Ignatius” that is available through their website pray-as-you-go.org. The short “novena” consists of five 10-minute meditations. It was originally done to honor St. Ignatius Loyola’s feast day several years ago, but is now a permanent feature on the site. You [...]
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The basic form of Ignatian prayer is the Daily Examen. A section of this website is devoted to it. The basic idea of the Examen is to find God in the events of our daily lives. The key to it is to look at our feelings. They are usually a good indicator of where God [...]
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A friend of mine sent me this piece in the Washington Post written several years ago by William Blazek, SJ. It’s the account of a ride one morning on the DC Metro–a delightful example of finding God in all things, including a moment of epiphany: That ordinary morning, on a plunging high-speed run through Foggy [...]
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Did you know that Ignatian prayer is “kataphatic” as opposed to “apophatic?” Neither did I. Actually, these fancy words point to a useful distinction. “Kataphatic” prayer has content; it uses words, images, symbols, ideas. “Apophatic” prayer has no content. It means emptying the mind of words and ideas and simply resting in the presence of [...]
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