At the dawn of 2023, we invite you to pray an Examen for the Year, to reflect on 2022 and look forward to the future in hope.

2022 has been a challenging year in many ways for many people. Our country has experienced fires, floods, and drought. Our environment has suffered and continues to suffer. Many families and businesses have been impacted by these events.

As co-creators and caretakers of this earth and all within it, we are invited to protect and care for all that God has gifted us. We offer you this Ecological Examen for 2022 to reflect on how we can make choices for a better world.

In the Ignatian tradition, the Examen is not a superficial review of the past events, but a call to reflect from that deeper place of the heart. St Ignatius understood the value of interiority, urging his first Jesuits to pray the five-step Examen each day.

This simple, yet powerful prayer of ‘consciousness,’ is a means of sifting through the interior movements of the heart, the emotions and feelings, joys, sorrows, and challenges of the day. It is a process of greater awareness, which, over time, enables discernment of choices and behaviours which are life-giving and rejection of those which are not. We also offer this General Examen for the Year.

An abundance of experiences for you – Here are just some of the many retreats available in 2023. 

The Spiritual Exercises

First Spiritual Exercises Inner Peace in Darkness and Light Retreat
The Full Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life
The Concise Spiritual Exercises
The Spiritual Exercises in Silence 30-Days
Deepening my experience of the Spiritual Exercises Retreat

Being with God in Nature

Heart of Creation Retreat Day NSW

Retreat Walk Bobbin Head NSW

Pilgrimage Day at Minjerribah (North Stradbroke) QLD

Retreat Walk Gold Creek QLD

Retreat Walk Adelaide SA

Quiet Time in the Bush, Kew VIC

Australian Ignatian Trails, SA