Audio Meditations

Browse our library of audio meditations. Select a category. Then just click on the image to access the audio. (Also check out our Spotify playlists!)

Which theme do you want? Examens, Liturgical Seasons, or Themed Meditations?

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Examens

Pray with Ignatius’ famous Suscipe prayer, focusing on the gifts of liberty, memory, understanding, and will. 

This version of the Examen is to be prayed in the morning, assessing your desires, feelings, and possible challenges as you face a new day.
To be prayed at the close of the day, this examen gives you the chance to reflect on how God was at your side during the day.
A 7-minute audio Examen similar to the Evening Examen but without music.
Pray this examen any time of day. It takes just two minutes, so now you have no excuse to pray!
Saint Ignatius often recommends that before prayer we ask God for “what I want and desire”. This two-part daily audio meditation will help you ask yourself, “What is the grace I seek?” Morning and Before Bed tracks are meant to bookend your day.
An audio examen on the blessing of family and our role in it. Pray alone or with your family.
A kind of life-long Examen, inspired by Ignatius’ Contemplation to Attain Love.
An Examen on how God has taken and blessed us, loved us in brokenness, and given us to the world.

St. Ignatius believed that our memory was a gift from God. This meditation invites you to explore and relive a specific moment within a significant memory.

Being a parent means living in the tension of joy and challenge. This Examen invites you to pray with your role as a parent, the challenges, joys, burdens, and moments of love.

Through the metaphor of a library, explore the stacks and discover the titles and genres that have shaped who you are. This guided meditation offers prompts for you to explore in your imagination, to simply see what is there.

Liturgical Seasons

Meditate on the four names of Christ from Isaiah 9.

Delve into the Advent gospel readings using the Ignatian imaginative prayer method. Click the image above to go to the audio for the First Sunday of Advent. Click here to purchase the entire series in PDF form.
Learn about discernment and decision-making in the light of the mystery of the Incarnation. Using the four weeks of Advent, the series is less meditation and more reflection.
From Ash Wednesday to Easter, Purple Rain offers meditations on the scriptures that, like the rain, help us grow during what seems to be a dry and arid liturgical season.
Imagine yourself at a party with Jesus. The conversation turns to resurrection.

Themed Meditations

The human experience includes pain, discomfort, and negative emotions and thoughts. How do we deal with these uninvited guests? This meditation invites us to reframe these guests as visitors we welcome. (No music version here.)

You are loved by God. No matter what. Period.
Be guided through the praying with any Gospel passage using the Ignatian imaginative prayer method.
This ten-part series walks you through the basic elements of Ignatian spirituality and includes a meditation relevant to the week’s theme. (Available as purchasable programme for your group.)
Be the person lowered through the roof to Jesus. What is keeping you paralysed? Put yourself in Jesus’ hands in this healing imaginative prayer.
A meditation based on Psalm 139. Sit in awe at the miracle you are.
Find a quiet space and make time to pray with this meditation on Jesus’ hands.
New year? New child? New job? New move? A meditation for any new beginning!
God just wants us to be more ourselves. This meditation will help us ask three key questions about our potential for wholeness: Where have I been? What are the tensions of my being? And, What within me am I being called to develop?

Pray with this hallmark concept in Ignatian spirituality. How do you need freedom in your life?