SAVIO RODRIGUES SJ During your review you try and remember what stood out in your prayer. Is there something you need to return to? What did you feel, experience, encounter, like, dislike? Was there something you realised? You will later share this review with your director. If you feel there is something you do not [...]

SAVIO RODRIGUES SJ Meditation is a slow pondering of the text, trying to intellectually understand its significance, and to apply it to one’s life situation. Meditation in this sense, means developing an intellectual image of the text, which in turn awakens a spiritual response. In this process one becomes more conscious of the facts just [...]

SAVIO RODRIGUES SJ Ignatian contemplation makes use of guided imagery and active imagination within a selected gospel text. It is advisable to choose an action filled passage, so that it brings one’s personal desires, inclinations, emotions, problems, shadows, etc. into focus in prayer, without planning to air these. Choose an action filled passage from the [...]

SAVIO RODRIGUES SJ Reflect on the Psalms: What does it mean? What is the psalmist trying to express? His feelings? Involve heart and soul: Use affective meditation — make the lines of the Psalm personal, catering to your needs, emotions, problems and situation. Repeat constantly: Repeat the lines of the Psalm simply but with as [...]

SAVIO RODRIGUES SJ Do not bother what the drawing looks like. Use lines to draw. Do not draw any figures. Take a sheet of paper and fold it into eight equal parts. Then in each of the parts draw: Anger, Joy, Peace, Depression, Power, Illness, Femininity and one feeling of your own choice. Before you [...]