How the Examen Changed My Perspective on Health and Self-Care
Here is a gentle invitation to practice praying the examen over your health
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Reflecting on the Past Year: An Ignatian Annual Examen
We invite you to reflect on 2022 as we begin a new year, using this Ignatian Annual Examen.
Teach Kids To Pray The Examen With This New Book
By Eric A. Clayton One of my priorities as a parent tasked with passing on the Catholic faith is to help my daughters expand their own religious imagination. Can they see themselves in the story? Can they dream big – and allow God to meet them in that space? Can they learn to ask the …
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An Ignatian Examen for Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving, we’re sharing an Examen prayer of gratitude, adapted by Marquette University Campus Ministry.
The Examen
When you feel ready, turn your eyes to the water and watch with God what the tide brings in as you look back together, lovingly, at your day.
Why We Need A Social Media Examen
By Eric A. Clayton Facebook has had a tough couple of months. If you’ve been following the news, you know that a series of investigative reporting, a flurry of testimony and interviews both on the Hill and on our TV screens and a consortium of international journalists – all spurred by the work of a …
Thank God for Free Time: A Leisure Examen
This “leisure examen,” loosely based on the Examen found in St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, provides the resources for an evaluation of our free time so that we can approach this sphere of life with greater intentionality and thereby realize more of its fullest potential.
The Ignatian Examen
How to Pray the Examen 1. Place yourself in God’s presence. Give thanks for God’s great love for you. 2. Pray for the grace to understand how God is acting in your life. 3. Review your day — recall specific moments and your feelings at the time. 4. Reflect on what you did, said, or …
The Ignatian Examen
The Ignatian Examen St. Ignatius invites us to find God in all things. That means we have to pay careful attention to how the Spirit is moving in each moment of our daily lives. We have to take a magnifying glass to the seemingly ordinary, seeking to encounter the Divine. That’s why the Examen is …
An Examen for Racism
By Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ June 22, 2020 — Racism is a sin that grows year-round in the hearts of many. These seeds, germinating for more than 400 years in hatred and oppression, devastate the Black community each time there is a new bloom. America’s epidemic of racism is slowly killing the people of God. Fifty …