Prayer Resources

Imagine Advent – 2nd Sunday

Pray with this Sunday’s gospel reading using your imagination.

Giving up Catholicism for Lent?

Last Lent you may have seen Stephen Colbert's bit on Ash Wednesday (see the video at the bottom). The broadcast opens on Colbert with ashes on his forehead. "The ash on my forehead is a Christian symbol of sacrifice, penance, and mortality," he began. "It's basically...

Purple Rain: 4th Sunday of Lent

An audio meditation for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

Making Choices in Christ – Week 8

Ignatian decision-making; determining God’s will

Pope Francis on Ignatian Spirituality

Pope Francis on prayer, discernment, and God in all things.

What are the Spiritual Exercises?

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

What is Spiritual Direction?

Becky Eldredge shares her first experience of spiritual direction and a “busy person’s retreat”.

In the Beginning, God Welcomed: A Biblical View of Hospitality

Hospitality is a sacred, transformative practice rooted in God’s own welcoming nature, echoing from creation to Christ, and inviting us to embody divine welcome in our daily lives.

Going Through the Motions

Sometimes going through the motions of a ritual can draw us back to God, especially in times of dryness.

The Gifts of the Spirit

Here is an excerpt from a piece I wrote on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit for Pentecost (this Sunday). You'll find the full article (link below) has an Ignatian slant. "On Pentecost Sunday, God breathed the Holy Spirit into the apostles to remind them that they were not...

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.