Posts tagged Ignatian spirituality

All eyes were on him.

Friday 10 February 2012

The readings from a couple of weeks ago have kept cropping up in my mind. Jesus is teaching in the synagogue and all eyes are fixed on him. He speaks with such authority that everyone is amazed. Maybe in their minds they begin to wonder “Who is this man? Where does all this come from?” […]

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Repetition, repetition.

Friday 20 January 2012

I have completed an Examen for last year 3 times now and it has reminded me of the importance of repetition in my spiritual life. This is a practice central to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. The idea is that people pray with a passage or topic that they have already prayed with. However it isn’t […]

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Doing an Examen for a Year.

Friday 6 January 2012

I first became aware of doing an annual Examen when reading “Sleeping with heart bread” by Matthew, Dennis and Sheila Linn. The two brothers had long had the practice of going away with friends to share what had happened to them over the previous years, in order to examine where they were spiritually. It also […]

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Looking back.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

The Daily Examen, in which we identify the ways we have turned towards or away from God, can also be done for a year. Reviewing 2011 is not a task I relish such has been the upheaval but I know that doing so will help me see where I am spiritually. This time last year […]

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Recollections

Friday 15 July 2011

We have now had two masses at St Agnes at our new time of 4pm. Afterwards we have tea and cake followed by teaching. We ended each session with “Recollection”, a version of the Ignatian Examen. This practice came out of St Ignatius’ own experience of the spiritual life. He had been badly injured in […]

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