"Inviting God into your Life"

Our Wednesday evening Lenten program this year is on prayer.  Fr. Klein will teach the prayer method called "the Examen Prayer."  This prayer method comes from St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Wednesday Evening Schedule

• 6:00 PM - The Holy Eucharist and Healing
• 6:30 to 7:00 PM - Lenten Dinner of soups, salad, bread
• 7:00 to 8:00 PM - "Inviting God into your Life."
• Nursery is from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

What is the Examen Prayer?  This is a five step prayer method.  The steps are:

1. We give thanks to God for the blessings of the day just lived;
2. We ask for grace to see and to overcome our failings;
3. We review the day using prayer to see our spiritual expereince/responses throughout the day;
4. We seek God's forgiveness where necessary;
5. We make a spiritual plan for the coming day.

This prayer method helps us to close the day and to acknowledge the presence of God during the day.  It can raise our level of awareness of God's daily life with us, and to our interior spiritual journey.

• Feb. 24 - Introduction to the prayer and the power of desire!
• Mar 3 -   Steps One and Two.
• Mar 10 - Steps Three and Four.
• Mar 17 - Step Five and Conclusion: talk on flexibility, prayer setting, identifying fruit of Examen prayer. Hand out prayer card.

At the conclusion of this program you will have learned a method of prayer that will help you keep the eyes of your heart open to the love and presence of God!  Join us.