A Year of Ignatian Prayer: 2025-26
After the success of our programme: A Year of Ignatian Prayer, 2024-2025 the Belfast Jesuit Centre is delighted to be able to run the programme again from October 2025 to June 2026. The aim of the programme is to give participants an immersive Ignatian experience of prayer and reflective living, so that whether you are already familiar with Ignatian spirituality, or are coming to it for the first time, you can deepen your relationship with God, find clarity in your life’s purpose, and cultivate a more mindful, spiritually-enriched way of living.
Topics covered will include:
- Introduction to St Ignatius: a man for our times
- Images of God
- Approaches to prayer – praying with scripture – imaginative contemplation – praying the Examen – journalling
- Finding God in all things – paying attention to feelings
- Consolation – Desolation – Discernment
- Communal Discernment and Synodality
- God calls me
- What next?
This list is intended to give a broad flavour of the programme but it is by no means exhaustive.
The emphasis throughout the programme will be on the practice, experience, application and integration of Ignatian spirituality into everyday life, rather than theoretical learning.
The programme will draw on a wide range of Ignatian resources, and sessions will have a mixture of input from the BJC team, experience and practice of prayer, small group sharing, and experience of guided prayer, as well as optional movie screenings each month.
Fourteen Mondays (approximately 2 a month) from 7.00pm – 9.30pm
Four Saturdays from 10.00am to 4.00pm between September 2025 and June 2026.
(Final dates to be arranged but it will be approximately 2 Monday evenings per month and 4 Saturdays throughout the year).
A donation of between £180-£250 is suggested to defray costs and a number of bursaries are available for those unable to pay the suggested donation.