This publish is predicated on Week 4 of An Ignatian Prayer Journey.

The Second Week of the Religious Workout routines invitations us into an prolonged contemplation on the lifetime of Jesus. We pray that we could grow to be extra like Jesus, and we do this by gazing on him as we discover the Gospels. We put ourselves into the scenes of the Gospels by way of imaginative prayer.

As Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, explains:

We belief that God is with us once we are praying these Workout routines…How we all know that is the suitable use of our creativeness is just this: is it drawing us nearer to Jesus? Is our creativeness serving to us develop in our information of Jesus and in our love of Jesus and in our want to serve or observe him? That’s, in the long run, how we all know whether or not our creativeness is correctly used.

O’Brien is the writer of The Ignatian Journey: Experiencing the Religious Workout routines of Saint Ignatius in Every day Life and Seeing with the Coronary heart: A Information to Navigating Life’s Adventures.