Daily Discernment - The Examen Prayer
DPD2 – The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer w/ Fr. Timothy Gallagher

Episode 2 The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer. Fr Tim DPD2   The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer w/ Fr. Timothy Gallagher  The First Step in the Examen Prayer:  Gratitude.  Taking time out of the day when our hearts are free to receive the Lord’s presence.  Prayer always takes two persons in relationship…ourselves and God.  Then together with the Lord, we see what the gifts of love God has poured out upon us.  The key in this first step, is not to look for our missteps (that may come later), but to look for the gifts and give thanks.

Father Timothy M. Gallagher, O.M.V., was ordained in 1979 as a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual formation according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.  Fr. Gallagher is featured on the EWTN series “Living the Discerning Life:  The Spiritual Teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola”.

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The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer–” series is based on Fr. Gallagher’s book ”The Examen” published by Crossroads Books.

Oblates of the Virgin Mary DPD2   The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer w/ Fr. Timothy Gallagher

For more information on the “Oblates of the Virgin Mary”

 

For the other episodes in this series check out Fr. Timothy Gallagher’s “Discerning Hearts” page

 

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