Prayer Resources

Exercising the Real: Spiritual Direction as Encounter

This is a post in a blog series on spiritual direction. This week's blogger is Stephanie Clouatre Davis. I went to my YMCA last week to try a new exercise class. When I got there I walked past the collection of people gathering for the class because I was intimidated...

Slow Prayer

Into slow eating or slow travel? Try slow prayer.

An Epiphany Psalm

A poem for Epiphany, from Jeffrey Wallace.

Dreaming of the Resurrection – An Audio Meditation

Use your imagination to meet Jesus at a party. The conversation turns to resurrection. What do you say?

Unhurried and Inefficient

Haste can be a mark of the evil spirit, while an unhurried—even inefficient—pace is often a mark of God’s kingdom.

Grace from Suffering

A year ago I was working as a chaplain at Georgetown University Hospital. It forced me to grapple with hard questions around suffering and the mystery of life. I recently wrote a reflection on how we can find grace in the midst of suffering for the 2 April issue...

The Magic of God

C.S. Lewis describes magic as “objective efficacy which cannot be further analysed.” Even explanations lead to further mystery or magic, and this fact witnesses to the existence of God.

Can I call God a friend?

We should have respect and reverence for God, but can we call God a friend? Yes! And here’s why…

A Song and A Smell

Songs and smells are two of the most powerful recallers of memories. Praying with them lets God into the intimate details of your life. Perhaps those magic “sensual” moments are a way of God revealing something special to you.

What are the Spiritual Exercises?

You can’t know Ignatian spirituality without a knowing the importance of the Spiritual Exercises. But what are they?

Prayer is an invitation from God, inviting us into relationship with God. It gives us a chance to take part in the story of creation, have an effect on the world, be involved in its God-story, and most importantly, reflect on how we contribute. These resources hope to reveal the infinite facets of prayer, the many ways we reach God, and how God reaches into our lives: in love, with words, in silence, seeking our desires, at different times, in different places.