Ignatius Loyola’s

Precious Gift to Me and my fellow Jesuit Brothers...

Praying the Examen

“ Become aware of God/s presence. Take time to

quiet your body and your mind. Pray for a graced

understanding of the day.

“ Thank God for the blessings of the day and ask

yourself:

What were the gifts of the day?

How was I a gift to someone today?

“ Notice the different feelings in the day. Recall and

examine the events of your day

and ask yourself:

Where was God in the events and the

persons of the day?

What moved me to act the way I did?

What habit helped me or hindered me?

Did these feelings move me toward God’s

peace or away from God’s peace?

“ Choose a positive or negative feeling and pray

over it.

That feeling is a sign that something

important is going on.

Simply express spontaneously the prayer that

surfaces as you attend to the

source of the feeling.

“ Look toward the future with hope and ask yourself:

If I am going to be in a situation again that I

did not handle well today, how

Do I want to handle it next time?

“ End with the Lord’s Prayer.

(Courtesy: Wisconsin Newsletter)