The Ignatian prayer of Examen is a Spiritual practice that invites us to “attend” to each part of the concluding day,
noting the places and moments we noted God’s presence
as well as the places and moments that we didn’t notice.
 
We do this through a five step process:
 
1. Asking the Holy Spirit help us review the day with honesty, clarity, and grace
2. Reviewing the day – its people, events, big and small things – with gratitude
3. Paying attention to our emotions, and what God might be saying to you
4. Choosing one feature of the day and praying from it
5. Looking ahead to the next day, dedicating it to God’s service, praying for light
 
As we transition to a new year,
we will try an Examen prayer of our previous year:
reviewing the year that’s ending,
listening for what God might be saying to us,
noting when our sense of God’s presence was strongest and weakest,
looking ahead to the new year with a sense of grace and commitment.

This service, on the last Sunday of the year, will lay this pattern of Examen
over the regular pattern of our worship 
- Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending -
for a morning that walks us through our year and through God's story.

​Join us.