Posts tagged Prayer

St Augustine on desire for God.

Friday 17 February 2012

I was struck by the second reading of the Office of Readings this morning. St Augustine writes on desire for God. If you don’t have a copy of the office, it can be read here. (This is a slightly different version to the one in the Office book) One paragraph that jumped out at me was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]