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Prayers, Meditations and Practices

Breath Prayers

Five Minute Meditations

Spiritual Practices from "Ten Minute Transformation"

These can be used in conjunction with Spiritual Direction, or simply as practices/ exercises you engage in on your own:
  1. Discerning your stage in The Critical Journey (a book which envisions the spiritual life as consisting of six stages): for an overview click HERE, for a self-assessment, click HERE
  2. Discovering your Sacred Pathway (which of nine pathways you rely on to best connect with God) (OVERVIEW: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) (ASSESSMENTS) (Spiritual practices for each pathway)
  3. How to write a general spiritual autobiography: Click HERE
  4. How to write an image of God autobiography: Click HERE
  5. How to identify your Enneagram: Click HERE
  6. Examens (Ignatian spirituality urges the use of examens to reflect on a day or more and contemplate ways in which God was active. Here are several versions of these in Google Form format)
    1. Seven Deadly Sins Examens:
      • Vainglory – Click HERE(for online version emailed to yourself and Chris); Click HERE(for private version you print yourself)
      • Envy – Click HERE (for online version emailed to yourself and Chris); Click HERE (for private version you print yourself)
      • Sloth – Click HERE (for online version emailed to yourself and Chris); Click HERE (for private version you print yourself)
      • Avarice – Click HERE (for online version emailed to yourself and Chris); Click HERE (for private version you print yourself)
    2. General Examen Questions 1: Click HERE
    3. General Examen Questions 2: Click HERE
    4. Examen of Consolation/ Desolation: Click HERE
    5. Experiencing God In, With and Through: Click HERE
  7. How to know your Spiritual Gift: (this series of contemplative questions helps you better understand your spiritual gifts/ talents and how to use them in service to God and others): Click HERE.
  8. How to write a lament: (PDF)
  9. How to write a Rule of Life (PDF) (podcast)
  10. List of 75 Spiritual Practices from Adele Calhoun’s Spiritual Disciplines Handbook Revised and Expanded Edition: (PDF)
  11. Here’s a 15 minute extended time of prayer and meditation based on some of the Psalms of Ascents called “Prayers for the Journey.”
  12. Here’s a 15 minute extended time of reading and meditation based on the Stations of the Cross.
  13. This series of meditations on Advent are an expansion based on the Contemplation of the Incarnation by Ignatius of Loyola: (PDF)
  14. This “Little Book of Beginnings,” based on a section of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, provides six spiritual exercises designed to help you discern God’s invitations as you enter new seasons, new opportunities, new years, etc. (PDF)
  15. Via Crucis is a devotional, based on part of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, which leads you through 14 of the Stations of Cross. At each station, you’ll find a prayer, a text for contemplation (with reflection questions and devotional thoughts), and a brief spiritual exercise. (PDF)