Contemplative at Home

This examen is for those who find themselves in their own particular "valley of the shadow of death," a meditation on the way that God has been with me today, even in sorrowful time. As you slow down to pray,  some emotion may come to the surface. If it feels safe to do so, I invite you to be present to the emotions, to take the time to feel them, trusting that the Lord is holding you close, carin...

Whether you work in the community, online, in an office, a hospital, or at home with your small children, this mindful Examen should help you look back over all of your efforts and encounters, gain perspective, and to prepare for tomorrow with "Thine own dear Presence to cheer and to guide."  Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. This special episode offers an Examen Prayer for children and is best for kids of Primary or Elementary school age. Featuring two special guests! For more information and show notes please visit www.contemplativeathome.com or find us on Facebook. All scripture is read from the NRSV. Al...

I offer you here a prayer of Examen inspired by the book Sleeping with Bread  by Dennis, Matthew and Sheila Linn. Mom gifted me with a copy of Sleeping with Bread in an unsettled season of my mid-20s, and it was my first exposure to Ignatian Spirituality. I've since bought countless copies for friends. Maybe you'll buy it for someone this Christmas, or put it on your own Christmas list! If you fin...

This guided prayer of Examen is designed as a prayer of review, often prayed at the end of the day. Ignatius of Loyola suggested this Examination of Conscience or Consciousness as a way to help his followers see God in all things. Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. For more information and show notes please visit www.contemplativ...

The first in our series of Examen prayers, a ten minute prayerful review of the day Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina. For more information and show notes please visit www.contemplativeathome.com or find us on Facebook or Instagram. All scripture is read from the NRSV. Artwork and music written, recorded and produced by...

Hello and welcome back after a long break! A quick unedited bit of news about where I've been and what is coming up on the podcast. Contemplative at Home offers a meditative prayer experience drawing on Lectio Divina and Ignatian spirituality Find us on Facebook or at contemplativeathome.com

In Matthew 10:5-14, Jesus sends out the twelve to minister to people they meet. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. Matthew 10:5-14 & 20 is read from the Message This was first published at Contemplative at Home ....

In Luke 18:9-14, Jesus tells a story specifically to the people who "trusted in themselves that they were righteous." Aren't we all weak to this belief, seeing ourselves in almost every scenario as the one in the right ? Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing o...

In John 8:2-11, the scribes and Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman who has been caught in the act of adultery, to test Jesus' interpretation of the law. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. John 8:2-11 is read from th...

In John 11, Jesus' dear friend Lazarus dies while his family waits for Jesus to arrive, to heal him. On arriving at the home, four days too late, Jesus is deeply moved, and disturbed in spirit. Then he enters the tomb, and calls forth life, unbinding Lazarus from death. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative a...

In Luke 7:36-50, Jesus is having a meal in a Pharisee's home, when a woman who has "lived a sinful life" comes in. She stands behind Jesus and weeps, washes his feet with her tears, drys them with her hair, kisses them and pours expensive perfume over them Notice how deeply Jesus sees both this woman, and the Pharisee. You too are invited to deepen your gaze as you engage in these 20 minutes of pr...

In John 3:1-10, the Pharisee comes to Jesus at night, to ask him some questions. Jesus invites him to a new way of seeing, a new perspective on the Kingdom of God. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. Mark Luke 24:1...

In Luke 19:1-10, Zaccheaus, who collects taxes from his fellow countrymen on behalf of the Romans, and earns his wage by inflating the fees, is interested in catching a glimpse of Jesus. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio...

In Mark 10:17-22, a young man from a privileged background comes earnestly seeking wisdom from Jesus about how to access the Divine, how to inherit eternal life. Jesus is filled with love for this man. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spiritua...

Contemplative at Home is a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. This episode is in John 5:1-9, Jesus healing the paralysed man at the pool at Bethzatha. For more information and show notes please visit www.contemplativeathome.com or find us on Facebook or Instagram. All scripture is read from the NRSV

In Matthew 14:13-22, five loaves and two fish miraculously feed thousands of people. As I listened to this passage read prayerfully and slowly, I noticed Jesus showing love to this great gathering of hungry people again and again. I wonder what will stand out to you… Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes.  Contemplative at...

In the opening verses of Acts 2, the disciples experience a powerful infilling of the Holy Spirit, which ignites them for the ministry of healing and evangelism on a whole new level. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Div...

 In Luke 24:36-38,44-53, Jesus is carried up to heaven even as he is blessing his disciples. NT Wright describes heaven as "God's space, which intersects with our space but transcends it… the God-dimension, of all our present reality."  Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer expe...

  In John 21, as they finish their breakfast beside the sea of Galilee, three times Jesus asks Peter if he loves him. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on Ignatian spirituality and Lectio Divina. John 21 is read from the NRSV This was first published at Co...

In John 21:1-14, Jesus' disciples are still wondering what to do with themselves. After a disappointing night in their fishing boat, Jesus appears on the beach and powerfully reassures them of his initiative, his generosity, his kindness and his love.  Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a gu...

In John 20:24-29, Thomas, one of the twelve cannot accept the claim that Jesus is alive again. Jesus appears to the disciples for the second time, offering peace, and offering Thomas the invitation to hope, to believe. Find your favourite spot for prayer, grab your journal, and sit deeply with yourself and the Lord for 20 minutes. Contemplative at Home offers a guided prayer experience drawing on...

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." In John 20;19-23, the disciples are locked in the upper room, in fear, when Jesus appears among them. "Peace be with you" he says to them- twice- then breathes on them, and says "Receive t...

They said to each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us  while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?' In Luke 24:13-35, two of Jesus' followers are trying to get their heads around the fact that their own leaders have had Jesus crucified, as well as Mary's incredible claim that morning, that he was alive again. While walking along the road to Emmaus a...

"Dear woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?"   She thought he was the gardener. "Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him." What we celebrate now as Easter morning was for those who lived through it a time of bewilderment and confusion and shock. Using text from Mark 16 and John 20 we pray with the women...