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Live the Fast recognizes its role in serving its community and the greater Christian community in teaching about prayer and fasting.
We are constantly learning and growing as an apostolate through research and interviews with priests, religious, doctors and Live the Fast community members.
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How to pray: Daily Examen
Below are five steps to notice where God is present throughout your day:
1. Prepare for prayer
Find a comfortable position. Begin with a few deep breaths to calm your heart and mind. Acknowledge the intent of this prayer: to grow closer with God.
2. Thanksgiving
Start by thanking God for the gifts of the day and anything you are grateful for.
3. Review
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see your day clearly. Now, walk through your day as though you are playing a movie in your mind. What stands out? Any particular emotions or moments? Any consolations – when you felt close to God or noticed Him working? Or desolations – times when you felt far from God and from who you are called to be?
4. Respond
Talk with God about what stood out from your day. What might God be telling you through your experiences
and feelings? Take some time to ask forgiveness for the times you weren’t at your best. Offer up more gratitude for the blessings that stood out. Whatever comes to mind, talk with God about it.
and feelings? Take some time to ask forgiveness for the times you weren’t at your best. Offer up more gratitude for the blessings that stood out. Whatever comes to mind, talk with God about it.
5. Look to tomorrow
What are you excited about? What is making you nervous? Visualize yourself walking through the day with God and asking for His help.
6. Close
Spend a few more moments with God, listening for Him and finding peace in His presence. In Hallow, we close with an Our Father and the sign of the cross.
We hope you’ll join us in praying the Examen in Hallow.
The Surrender Prayer
St. Ignatius’ Surrender (“Suscipe”) Prayer shares this greater purpose of the Examen with us:
“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.”
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.”
Pray the Surrender Prayer on Hallow