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Ignatian Spirituality
Ignatian Prayer:

 Imaginative
 Puts oneself into the Gospel stories and allows the Spirit to speak

 Uses the senses to enhance prayer by imagining what the scene looked
like, what the weather was like, etc.

 Organized, regimented, and traditional
 Helped by reading longer Scripture passages and making connections

Ways to Pray:

 Daily Examen  Gospel Contemplation

 Rosary and Chaplets  Mass

 Way of the Cross

Suggested Scripture:

 Exodus  James

 Isaiah  The Gospels especially Matthew

Thomistic Spirituality
Thomistic Prayer:
 Contemplative

 Searches for the truth that becomes a prayerful dialogue
 Reflects on a virtue, fault, truth, or mystery

 Questions the who, where, what, when, why, how and with what to see
the depths of what is being contemplated

 Sets goals
 Takes a short lesson away from prayer that can focused on afterwards

Ways to Pray:
 Examination of Conscience

 Spiritual Reading

Suggested Scripture:

 Gospel of John  Hebrews  Ephesians

 Wisdom  Psalms  Colossians