School of Prayer- Ignatian Spirituality the Imaginative Contemplation Method. How to, then example.
Channel: Miles Mariae
Date: 2022-01-10

School of Prayer,

This video is part of a short series on the different methods of mental prayer (meditation) in the Catholic Faith. 

This video is an introduction into the Ignatian Imaginative Contemplation Method.

 First of all I VERY BRIEFLY explain its history it is and give an outline of the METHOD. Then, 30 mins of the video is actually doing the method. I guide you through a 30 min Ignatian prayer session. 

Please let me know what you think, if I the video proves popular perhaps I will repeat the exercise. 

Two more episodes have been produced in this series, looking at two other valuable methods of meditation from Catholic spiritual theology.

Here is the text for this episode.

Mt. 14:20-27
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They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.  Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone,
and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.
When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”