We invite you to listen to an Examen Prayer from Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality Australia.
As 2021 slips away, this is the perfect time to reflect on the year gone by.
In the Ignatian tradition, this is not a superficial review of the past events, but a call to reflect from that deeper place of the heart.
St Ignatius understood the value of interiority, urging his first Jesuits to pray the five-step Examen each day. This simple, yet powerful prayer of ‘consciousness,’ is a means of sifting through the interior movements of the heart, the emotions and feelings, joys, sorrows, and challenges of the day. It is a process of greater awareness, which, over time, enables discernment of choices and behaviours which are life-giving and rejection of those which are not.
At the dawn of 2022, we find ourselves midway through the Ignatian Year and our journey through the virtual Erromeria pilgrimage. Before embarking on the next stage of the life of St Ignatius and another year of our own lives, we invite you to experience an Examen Prayer for the Year to reflect back on 2021 in order to look forward to the future in hope!