EXAMEN PRAYER

We invite you to set this prayer as a weekly rhythm. Take time to pause, sit and review the experiences of this past week.

EXAMEN PRAYER:

1. Become aware of the presence of God and his love for you

2. Review the week with gratitude

3. Be attentive to what you’re feeling or to what you’re thinking as you ask yourself the following questions:

a. Where in your week did you experience consolation*; joy, comfort or peace?

b. Where in did you experience desolation**; sadness, frustration or failure?

4. As you become attentive to your desolation; what sadness, frustration or failure might you need to confess? Where might you need to receive forgiveness?

5. Look forward to tomorrow with hope! What newness is the Holy Spirit inviting you into?

*A consolation is an experience that causes you to feel fully alive, at peace, joyful, happy, comforted, whole, connected, your best self, etc., and could be understood as an experience in which you feel close to God.

**A desolation is an experience that causes you to feel drained of energy, frustrated, irrupted, angry, sad, sorrowful, alone, isolated, unaccented, fragmented, less than your best self, etc., and could be understood as an experience in which you feel far away from God.