Examen
The Examen and Holiday Family Times
This time of year brings many family gatherings. Have you thought about how prayer—specifically the Examen—can help you appreciate, grow, or heal your relationships?
Andy Otto offers a Family Examen...
Books
A Spirituality of the Present Moment
An Augustinian, a Franciscan, and a Jesuit all die and go to heaven. Jesus asks each one: “If you could go back, what would you change about your life?”
The...
Ignatian Prayer
Pray for Strangers
Wyatt Massey writes for America magazine:
I sit alone on the bench, outside of a café as I wait for a friend. The lines on each passing face, the way...
Spirituality
Spiritual Friendship
The twelfth-century Cistercian monk Aelred of Rievaulx wrote a small work that has become a classic, Spiritual Friendship. It would be easy to think that the word spiritual in...
Examen
The Challenge of the Examen
L. White, who blogs as the “Still Practising Catholic,” experimented with prayer journaling the Examen. She found it challenging to notice areas of her life that might need to...
Books
St. Ignatius Loyola’s 10 Guidelines for Negotiating Life’s Journey
One June morning, Brendan McManus, SJ, stepped out for a much-needed walk—to be exact, a 500-mile hike on Spain’s renowned Camino de Santiago. A few years earlier, he lost...