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Allowing God to Work Through Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Rebecca Ruiz

In his book, The Ignatian Adventure, Kevin O’Brien, SJ, says that contemplation, in the Ignatian sense, “is more about feeling than thinking. Contemplation often...

Giving Myself Permission to Make Adjustments in Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Gretchen Crowder

I have always considered myself terrible at Ignatian contemplation. That’s a form of prayer that invites one to place oneself in a scene from...

The Contemplation on the Incarnation and Advent

Spiritual Exercises Becky Eldredge

The Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises begins with a Contemplation on the Incarnation (SE 101–109). The graces we pray for with this meditation...

The Magi and Contemplation

Spirituality Marina Berzins McCoy

When the magi see the star and come to visit the Christ Child, they see the baby and fall down and worship God’s presence...

Contemplation to Attain the Love of God

Spiritual Exercises Marina Berzins McCoy

The Contemplation to Attain the Love of God is a kind of capstone of Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises. Sometimes it is phrased as “The Contemplation...

Light and Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer dotMagis Editor

You might spend time outside on a sunny day, seeing the sunlight illuminating everything, feeling its warmth on your body, and imagining how God...

Fr. James Martin on Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer dotMagis Editor

Fr. James Martin, SJ, author of books including My Life with the Saints (10th anniversary edition) and Jesus: A Pilgrimage, recently shared with Sean...

Sight Is the Seed of Contemplation

Spirituality Andy Otto

The Examen begins with an awareness of God’s presence, imagining God gazing upon us with love. It’s this gaze that taps us into the...

Contemplation in Action

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

Contemplation in action is about learning how to be, learning how to see, and learning how to love. Learning How to Be Contemplation is first about...