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SPIRITUAL
COMPANION
Giuse Phạm Thanh Liêm, SJ
Advice 1:
You pray every day at least 45 minutes. If you are a student and have
tests coming up, you will pray at least 30 minutes a day. After finishing a
prayer, you will do the review of prayer for about 7-10 minutes. You can see
the advice for review of prayer in the web page basic
knowledge. Please remember the grace you received in that prayer, so that
you can share it with others in the email group or through chat room. Please
keep in mind the difficulties you have met with in prayer to ask your spiritual
companion through email or chat room.
Advice 2:
When you pray, please follow strictly 6 steps of praying. All steps are
important, but steps 1, 4, and 6 are extremely vital. Six steps of praying are
also in the web page basic knowledge.
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The first step is to be aware of God’s presence. God is present
everywhere, beside you and inside you. God is so intimate to you that nobody
can be as close to you as God. He is in your heart, in your soul. He loves you
and wills to talk with you. Praying is to be present and talk with God, so this
step is very important. There is no conversation if your partner is absent. You
should do this step carefully until being aware of His presence.
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The fourth step is to ask God for the grace you desire. Each prayer
suggested has its own grace to ask. Please try to understand the grace and ask
God to receive it in this prayer. In your review of prayer, please check if you
got this grace. If you got this grace, this prayer is very good.
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The sixth step is to have conversation with God. It is called “colloquy”
as well. Praying is to talk with God, so this step is essential and
indispensable. Saint Ignatius told us to talk with God as a friend to a friend,
as a slave to his master, as our Lord, as our lover, and as the most intimate
person of ours. God loves us very much, so feel free to talk with God. The
fifth step is some points suggested to help you talk with God, that help you to
ask for the grace of this prayer. Therefore, points suggested are means to help
you to talk with God, to have colloquy with Him. If only one point helps you to
have a conversation with God, then put away the other points. To be with God,
to have colloquy with God is the most important part of the prayer.
Advice 3:
In a prayer, if you feel peaceful, joyful, and profoundly happy, then
rest upon there. It feels like when you are beside your lover, if you feel
happy, you don’t need to talk any more. Enjoy that happy time if you recognize
it.
Advice 4:
Please read carefully the web page BASIC KNOWLEDGE
before doing the Spiritual Exercises. It is very helpful for you.
The following information helps people doing the Spiritual Exercises via
Internet know the way to communicate with their spiritual companion and other
retreatants. It deals with email group address, chat room and time arranged for
chatting.
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Firstly, the email group address of this Spiritual Exercises course is [email protected]. The
“spirexer” is the abbreviation of “Spiritual Exercises.” When you send e-mail
to [email protected], all
members of this Spiritual Exercises course receive it.
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Secondly, our chat room is on Yahoo; therefore, you must have an ID in
Yahoo to chat. Please create one and send it to me, so that I can add your
Yahoo ID in the email group. At the time arranged, please go to the Internet
address http://groups.yahoo.com, sign
in, click on the group “spirexer,” finally click on “chat” to share our
spiritual experiences. I will be there to guide your sharing by putting on some
questions. What time is best for us to chat with one another? For example, you
might leave the following message: I don’t know if it is good for us at
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I have two email addresses: [email protected]
and [email protected]. If you have any
confidential stuff to ask your spiritual companion, please send it to me
through one of above two email addresses. Don’t send it through [email protected]. If we need
to talk about this stuff, please inform me by email first, and then we will
arrange time for it. I will give you my telephone number by email. In this case
we will use a phone card that is not expensive, for example, 5 dollars for
about two hours of speaking between
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