Ignatian Spirituality: Set the World Ablaze

John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Ignatian Spirituality Resources

If you are interested in prayerful resources related to Ignatian Spirituality ….

Here is an Examen that was created in response to COVID-19.
In addition to the Examen, the Ignatian Solidarity Network has created these Prayers and Resources in response to COVID-19.
Here is a Meditation for the Anxious.
Ignatian Spiritualty contains many prayerful resources, including Ignatian Wisdom for Troubled Times and, in addition to the Examen noted above, a Coronavirus response lesson for children in parishes and schools
Pray As You Go has daily prayers by the Jesuits of Britain. Also now is Pray As You Stay, a weekly online retreat in response to COVID-19. There is also a library of Prayer Tools: the tool highlighted for this week is loneliness.
Sacred Space is the prayer website for the Irish Jesuits, with a Reflection on the coronavirus.
The Jesuit Prayer Team provides reflections on Scripture as well as short biographies on the “Blessed Among Us,” the ordinary people who led extraordinary lives who have gone before us
God In All Things contains many prayerful resources, including an Audio Meditation on “Beloved.”
Heart to Heart also contains a series of prayerful resources, including Practices for the Pandemic - The Sign of the Cross Mediation and Seeds of Hope Lenten Series.
There is a Three Minute Retreat from Loyola Press.
Do you like podcasts? Jesuit podcasts can be found at AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast and Jesuitical.
Would you like to connect body and mind and prayer? Ignatian Yoga may be something for you.

Other prayerful resources ….

Give Us This Day, a monthly publication of Scripture and reflections, is offering its digital version without charge.
The Hallow app is a Catholic mediation app.
Another podcast? Here is one from Inside the Vatican.
Would you like to participating in liturgy electronically? Pope Francis's Daily Mass from Casa Santa Marta and Bishop Barron's Daily Mass are available, as well as Sunday Mass that are archived and livestreamed on Sunday in the Albany Diocese.
Holy Week at Home prepared by Liturgical Press.