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~ Live and Online Events 2023/24 ~
Feb 5 - March 11, 2024 - Fundamentals of Prayer - Live Class
May 21, 2024 - Saint Teresa of Avila - Live Class
February 5 - March 11, 2024
Fundamentals of Prayer with Leigh Murray, Spiritual Director
Mondays, February 5th through March 11, 2024 - 6:30pm-8:00pm
Live: Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, PA
Often, I am told by people that want to learn how to pray and meditate that they just do not know where to start. They ask me “How do I pray? How do I meditate? Where does one even begin?”
In response to these questions, I have created a six-week journey that introduces the foundations of prayer, meditation, and contemplation from the perspective of the Christian Mystics.
We will focus on the practices of Lectio Divina, Prayer, Meditation, Contemplation, and Imaginative Prayer. The intention is to introduce these foundational practices in a tranquil, safe, and supportive container, to help all participants set up a daily practice with confidence and purpose! We will also strive to find a deeper understanding of why all these methods of prayer are important, effective, and so consistently taught by the mystics.
This program is for anyone with a sincere desire to begin, or deepen their spiritual practice.
For more information and to register below:
https://daylesford.org/event/fundamentals-of-prayer-with-leigh-murray-spiritual-director/
November 12, 2023
How the Use of Active Imagination and Spiritual Senses Invites Deeper Transformation in the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
Sunday, November 12th 1-4 via Zoom
Saint Ignatius believed that the imagination is a “faculty of the soul” and a way for God to communicate with us. Thus, in the Spiritual Exercises, he guides us to use these aspects of ourselves, telling us: “By the imagination, the soul can render an object present and, as it were, see it, hear it, taste it and so on. So that to apply this faculty of the soul and the five senses to a truth of religion (according as it is susceptible of it), or to a mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ, is what is called application of the senses” (Salai, 119).
It is through this encouragement to use our active imagination and “spiritual senses” that Saint Ignatius invites us to a deeper understanding of who and what we are. We are invited to see in new ways and to take off the blinders that we may have been wearing, allowing us to find healing and restoration, thus becoming integrated, wholesome human beings.
In this enrichment session we will explore the importance of the imagination and spiritual senses in healing and transformation as Spiritual Directors. We will learn how St. Ignatius’ use of imagination inspired Carl Jung to study The Exercises and create a deep body of work around Active Imagination and how it is useful in personal transformation. We will have a look at how to invite our retreatants into using their active imagination and spiritual senses with a deeper sense for what we are doing, and why.
This program is for trained spiritual directors, and those in spiritual director formation.
For more information and to register follow link below:
May 21, 2024
St. Teresa of Avila: The Journey to the Beloved
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
1-3 pm
Live: St. Raphaela Center, Haverford Pa
This will be a live talk on the teachings of St. Teresa of Avila and how her teachings apply directly to the art of spiritual direction.
This program is for trained spiritual directors, and those in spiritual director formation.
Details and registration are coming soon!