Reimagining the Examen app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
7376 ratings )
Utilities
Book
Developer:
Loyola Press
Free
Current version:
1.23, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 16 Feb 2016
App size: 90.06 Mb
Reimagining the Examen offers a unique prayer experience that’s tailored to your needs and mood. Each Examen, based on St. Ignatius’s 500-year-old prayer, guides you through a stimulating reflection on your day, helping you invite God into your nitty-gritty. Choose an Examen that matches your current state of being, or pray that day’s scheduled reflection.
Reimagining the Examen, created by Loyola Press, is based on Mark Thibodeaux, SJ’s best-selling book, “Reimagining the Ignatian Examen,” which offers flexible and adaptable versions of the Examen. Begin the app experience today to invite grace, gratitude, and insight into your daily life.
What is the Examen?
St. Ignatius of Loyola created the Examen to be a very short prayer that can be prayed at any time. In the Examen, we review our recent past to find God and his blessings in our daily life. Ignatius would say that the Examen should be the most important moment of our day, because this moment affects every other moment.
How Do I Pray the Examen?
There are five simple steps to the Examen, which this app leads you through:
1. Relish the moments that went well and all of the gifts you have today.
2. Request that the Spirit lead you through your review of the day.
3. Review your day.
4. Repent of any mistakes or failures.
5. Resolve, in concrete ways, to live tomorrow well.
Pros and cons of Reimagining the Examen app for iPhone and iPad
Reimagining the Examen app good for
This app, based on the classic and timeless Examen of Ignatius, is flexible and connects with everyday life, feelings, challenges and blessings to come inspire and encourage the seeker.
A fine app, very nicely done.
If you choose to USE it, however, it becomes an AWESOME leverage to move you praying along in a fantastic way.
I highly recommend it to anyone in any flavor of Christianity.
This is a great spiritual app! There are lots of variations you can select depending on your days events. You can customize the background sounds too. In all, this is a prayerful way to reflect on Gods gifts of the day and identify the challenges and the graces needed. I highly recommend this app!
I really enjoy this app. Im a bit lazy with prayer, but I find myself excited to pray through it each night. It has led me into deep prayer and connection with God. Highly recommend it!
This app is wonderful--Simple to use with many varieties to fit your mood or day. It helps keep me focused on the posts of the examen especially out in public where it is harder to pray (or when my mind is especially "frisky"). Its a button to push when the need to do something on my phone is there. Ive even handed it to my teens on occasion when I could tell they were bored--they liked it! Thank you!
Some bad moments
This is a great app to creatively engage with God and keep up a good prayer practice. These examens deepen ones relationship with God by exploring different dimensions of ones spiritual life. The app itself is a very convenient and helpful reminder to seek God in all things. Great work!
Selection of new examen is unresponsive. I tap the selection, it momentarily highlights. Have to keep tapping the screen...not sure what actually gets the new examen to appear or if it is just very slow.
One of two of the texts that I did get to have what I think are easily avoidable uses of male pronoun for God.
Will check back in a few weeks to see if improvements made. Not something Id bother with in its current state.
(Tested in iPad mini and iPad both with 9.2)
This app is great. The navigation can be a little slow for selecting a version of the Examen but the content is great! I have found this app to be very helpful for prayer. I like both the options to focus on a specific area to pray about and the sound/music options. Praying with this app strikes a nice balance that would be somewhere between a guided prayer service and preparing material on my own.
One question for Loyola Press … is there any chance that an app or e-book for the book “Hearts on Fire” could be created? That’s another resource that I think many would find helpful.
This app has made praying the examen prayer so much easier and richer.
