Last week, from Monday to Friday, I was "on retreat"; I've put it in inverted commas because I was not able to go to Wales as planned, but I did take half a day from Monday to Friday, to spend in prayer and reflection. Prior to that, I had made a video which I intended to put onto the blog but never got round to. I will put it here now, and following that, as promised in the video, I will do a brief explanation of the Ignation prayer of Examen.
According to "The way of Ignatius Loyola - contemporary approached to the Spiritual exercises", edited by Philip Sheldrake, there are five points to the prayer of examen.
Point one: To give thanks to God for favours received as one reflects on the events of the day.
Point two: To ask for grace to know one's sins and to rid oneself of them - by reflecting on responses to events
Point three: To demand an account of one's soul from waking up to the point of examination - by considering first thoughts, then words then deeds.
The fourth point: To ask for God's pardon from the days sins, noted from point three.
The fifth point: To resolve to amend by the grace of God.
Give this type of prayer a try and see how you get on.
God bless
Lyn
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