Meditation Nm 6,22-27

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: see some space around you or the place where you were.

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for openness and sensitivity to good (God is good)


I invite you to reflect on what the ending 2019 year brought. Reveal yourself and God to look at your life in His light: with His gentleness, sensitivity.

1. Find a place, a space that is conducive to reflection: maybe it is some place in your home, maybe a chapel, or maybe it will be a place for your walk.

2. Retrospectively notice your events, words, thoughts, people met, new circumstances, what your heart lived, what feelings accompanied you in specific events, what intentions, motivations guided you – accept everything that it happened, that it appeared in your reality, even if you didn’t want something or something was difficult. Do not judge, only notice.

3.See the good, what opened you to life, relationships, although you may have felt the hardships of your work and at the beginning what seemed to you that something is impossible. What good was created, what joy did you experience, from whom did you receive love and whom did you show love? What can you do or not do to strengthen it?

4. Also notice what was not good, what took your life away, joy, what you might think is your failure, which turned out to be your inability to love. Maybe these unacceptable events motivated you to look for new solutions, new ways in your life? Accept yourself and reconcile all this with yourself as you can, so that you can go on to the fullness of Life in God and you can become more and more like God.

5. Renew, awaken your desires to see the good you receive from God, to become ever more open and sensitive to what is happening in your life and to other people. Enter the New Year with these desires and curiosity

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

 

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar, such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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Meditation Lk 2,1-21

see Mt 1,18-25

 Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: Jesus in a manger.

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for the peace that Jesus gives 

1. Let yourself be with Miriam and Joseph.From Nazareth to Judea – a place where there was a census – about 160 km. Miriam was already 9 months pregnant, so this way was not easy for them. It wasn’t safe either. What could their way be? What could they experience? Miriam and Joseph had nowhere to stay. Jerusalem was crowded. At this time, Miriam begins giving birth. See, feel Joseph’s anxiety, Miriam’s anxiety. Be with them. What they felt did not block them from accepting the newborn, finding in this difficult reality a place where childbirth could take place and where they could spend the first days with their child.What is your way that you go to the goal – Fullness of life in God? What are your fears and anxieties? How do they affect your life, your decisions?

2. Stop by the manger.Look at little Jesus – the one who lies defenseless, dependent on his parents, and at the same time he is the Savior of the world, someone who has loved you to the end and gives you peace.

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar, such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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Meditation Mt 1,1-17

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: see your family, a photo of someone from your past

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for the complete acceptance of what is my history (if it is difficult ask for the desire to accept what is your history)

 1. Perhaps the meditated passage makes no sense to you at first sight. However, it is worth looking deeper to see that the family of Jesus is not sacred in the human sense. It is still a history of salvation. God is everywhere and works through everyone. The story of Jesus’ family is marked by the sin and deceitfulness of their ancestors (remember the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar, with whom he had children or story of the prostitutes Rahab). Jesus’ ancestors were also people who were not perfectly alive and today we can say they had difficulty obeying God’s 10 commandments. Jesus was not born in the palace, but in a manger. This story gives us a lot of hope that our families are also marked by sin, difficulties, that we have our fears, fears for our children and the future. All this does not bother God, His Presence in our lives.Look at your family history – remember the names, events, and see that everything that was, even if it seems difficult, has affected you today and you can be alive today.

2. The family history from the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew shows that everything that happened led to Jesus, to salvation. Christ came to reconcile the world to save, not to throw away somethingLook inside yourself: what is going to God in you and what is not going to God. How can you reconcile and save everything that is within you so that it can serve together for the greater glory of God?

3. Stay in God’s Presence.

4. For reflection phrase of Ignatius Loyola: He who makes a mistake, let him not be spirited, because mistakes help for the health of the soul. (St. Ignatius encourages reflection, drawing conclusions and constant openness to God’s action.)  

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar, such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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Meditation Mt 18,12-14

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: See the scene from the Gospel – a shepherd and his sheep.

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for clinging to Jesus – my Shepherd

1. The shepherd has 100 sheep. One is lost. So, he leaves 99 sheep to look for the one missing. He seems to be doing something irrational. After all, these 99 sheep can get lost while looking for one who has left the herd. The shepherd must therefore have great confidence in his sheep, since he leaves them while looking for one sheep. Jesus trusts you – think about it for a moment. What does this mean to you?

2. The shepherd is more pleased to find one lost sheep than 99 sheep who are not lost. Does this also not seem irrational? Many of us may feel the injustice of this shepherd’s attitude. But let’s look from a different way: maybe each of these 99 sheep was also a lost and found sheep by its shepherd before? How does this affect your perception of this situation?

3. Look inside yourself: what is your space lost and needs to be found by its shepherd?

4. For reflection from A Pilgrim’s Journey of Ignatius of Loyola: Our Lord, nevertheless, came to his aid…  (p. 47)

Read about example of Ignatius, maybe you find something for you.

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar, such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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