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SOME PRAYER AND MEDITATION SUGGESTIONS!
Utilize the Links to assist in some experience of being still and Knowing God…
Ignatian prayer is imaginative, reflective, and personal. St. Ignatius Loyola encouraged people to develop an intimate relationship with a God who loves them and desires the best for them. Ignatius Loyola trusted human desires. He believed that our deepest desire is to return God’s love. Ignatius Loyola also trusted feelings. He believed that feelings of joy and sorrow, peace and distress, were important indicators of the path toward fruitful decisions and deeper union with God. At the heart of Ignatian prayer are the Spiritual Exercises and the Daily Examen. The Spiritual Exercises The Spiritual Exercises are a compilation of meditations, prayers, and contemplative practices developed by St. Ignatius Loyola to help people deepen their relationship with God.
http://www.sacredspace.ie/ is a site developed by the Irish Jesuits and offers an opportunity to read through a guided daily examen process to encounter God and scripture.
Lectio Divina A VERY ANCIENT art, practiced at one time by all Christians, is the technique known as lectio divina - a slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures which enables the Bible, the Word of God, to become a means of union with God.
http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/ A new audio prayer session is produced every day. It is not a 'Thought for the Day', a sermon or a bible-study, but rather a framework for your own prayer. Lasting between ten and thirteen minutes, it combines music, scripture and some questions for reflection. The aim is to help you to: become more aware of God's presence in your life, listen to and reflect on God's word, grow in your relationship with God.
Contemplative Prayer This form of meditation, recently known as 'Centering Prayer' (from a text of Thomas Merton) can be traced from and through the earliest centuries of Christianity. The Centering Prayer centers one on God. also http://www.contemplativeoutreach-co.org/
http://www.contemplativeprayer.net/ is a site developed by Fr William Meninger, a Trappist monk who lives in Snowmass, CO at St Benedict’s Monastery. He has some great resources here, including an audio clip which guides you through a 20 minute period of centering or contemplative prayer.
Praying the Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office), the richest single prayer resource of the Christian Church. It provides prayers, psalms and meditation for every hour of every day. It has existed from the earliest times, to fulfill the Lord's command to pray without ceasing. http://universalis.com/ The Universalis web site gives you quick and simple access to this resource, and to the liturgical calendar, and also to each day's readings at Mass. http://divineoffice.org/ Divine Office is produced by our ministry with the purpose of promoting the tradition of praying always through these ancient treasures of the Church. We hope everyone will enjoy these free daily inspirational scriptures and prayers recorded y our volunteers. Listening to psalms in the morning as you start your day or at the conclusion in the evening is a wonderful form of prayer with the benefit of being the confluence of inspirational poems and scripture.
http://www.cacradicalgrace.org is Fr Richard Rohr’s website and ministry.
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