Evening Examen

The Examen prayer is one of the foundations of Ignatian prayer. Saint Ignatius said if you prayed no other prayer, you should at least pray the Examen once a day. This version of the Examen is to be prayed at the close of the day, giving you a chance to reflect on the day with God at your side.

Transcript

Your desire to pray this Examen indicates a deep interior desire to know God and to know yourself in a deeper way.

This desire indicates God's presence right now and God's desire to enter into this prayer time with you.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit to shed light onto this prayer time.

For a moment,

Let yourself see through God's eyes as God allows you to come into His presence,

As God gains awareness of you and all your feeling,

All your experiencing.

Thank you,

God,

For spending this time with me.

You may have experienced today all kinds of feelings and emotions,

Joys,

Sorrows,

Delights,

And sadness.

As you continue to be aware of God's awareness of you,

You'll find that God not only wants to know about your feelings,

God wants to actually experience them.

Allow God to see the mix of feelings you've experienced today.

Specific feelings from today may arise.

God wants to experience them the way you did.

Thank you for readying to 그랬 at Him.

Thank you,

God,

For wanting to feel all that I felt today.

Now go through all the events of your day.

Let them come to mind naturally without effort.

What did I do?

Who did I meet?

What happened to me?

Re-experience these events.

Let any feelings come on their own.

Feel free to express to God what was good,

What was hard.

God is listening right now.

As you've taken note of all the goings on and feelings of the day,

There may have been one feature you kept going back to.

One thing.

Either something that happened,

Perhaps an interaction,

A relationship,

Or a feeling you felt that kept drawing you back to examine more.

What is that thing?

Take some time to pray just with that.

What can you take from that thing?

What my God had been teaching you through Thank you,

God,

For the grace of learning,

Of knowing that you're always dwelling with me.

Consider today what you have done for God.

How have you lived the gospel message of peace,

Charity,

And bold love?

Taking this time for prayer is a gift for you as much as it is a gift to God.

Saint Ignatius,

After reflecting on the ways he made God a part of his life,

Would ask,

What more can I do for God?

Magis is the Latin word for more.

This word carries within it the spirit of restless desire for greater things,

Such as living a deeper and more attentive life.

Based on your prayer and reflection in the last few minutes,

What more can you do in your daily living?

What is the Magis you can take to tomorrow?

그냥 God,

Thank you for these moments with you,

For the joys and struggles of today,

And for the gift of compassion.

Help me take the grace from this prayer,

And the modus I yearn for,

And live tomorrow anew,

In a spirit of greater awareness.

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Reviews

Transformative guided prayer where the meditator shares the feelings of the day with God.

I attended the funeral of a beautiful young friend of mine today. This was a wonderful practice to remember the moments of love, care , and grief of this sad day. A salutary reminder to appreciate every miraculous moment. Thanks and blessings for this. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Lovely reflection, so peaceful, thank you. Piano volume is a bit much.

I love falling asleep reflecting on the day to Andy Otto's voice.

Thank you 🙏🏾 💕

I enjoy the invitation to review my day in God’s presence- thank you.

I have grown to love this kind of prayer. Makes me grateful for all I have because of God. 🙏

This prayer brings a very personal relationship with God to the forefront. It is a different way of thinking about your relationship with God. I am bookmarking this.

Thanks for this meditation that brings a closer attention to God at the end of the day with the questions you asked. The piano music in the background was calming, the perfect touch.

Beautiful and meaningful prayer for the end of my day. I will listen to this often. Thank you

Peaceful. Loving. Thank you!

I loved the introduction of magis.
The prayer became deeper and more sincere.

Thank you for the prayer, the music, and the opportunity to pray with thoughtfulness and introspection.

Simple and beautiful! I have spent years with books, trying to work this into my evening prayer and always found it overwhelming. I can do this! Thank you so much!

I could not have said this prayer any better. It was what I was thinking.

Lovely, really thoughtful and beautiful piano music

great way to end my day. thank you for this calming practice

Thoughtful. Thank you 🙏🏻

Lovely & such a great ending prayer.🙏

Thank you for this wonderful end to my day each day