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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.

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4.37 out of 5

142 ratings in United States

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Deeply grateful

My mind often skitters during prayerful reflection and this app has helped me greatly to focus. Even tempts me to try different options later to reconnect with Him. Thank you very much.

Turning off the music

Love the app but the music is difficult to change despite touching my choice and it also plays continually, even when the app is closed.

Nice exercises but…

There are some lovely variations on the examen here, but I find the exclusively male pronouns for God distracting and very much a barrier.

It is the door into a deeper relationship with God

I tried for years to make the EXAMEN part of my prayer life but could “never find the time”. This leads me through a prayer process I can do anywhere, any time. Waiting in line. Before lunch. It quickly guides me into self-reflection, gratitude, awareness of God’s movement in my life and a desire for a closer relationship. I now put a reminder on my phone and open myself up to grace.

Great, but for one thing

I have really found this app to be very helpful to my prayer life (uh… when I remember to use it. You know how it is with spiritual practices.) However, one thing I used to love was the feature that allowed for a random Examen to pop up. For me, it was great to sit with whatever the app (the Spirit??) threw my way. When I have to choose a topic, I find that doing so is ME shaping my prayer in a way that is less helpful. Is there a way to access the random function anymore? Thanks…

Screen freeze

Tried using tonight after mentioning to prayer team. Launched but could not move pages.

Delightful Examen Experience

I’ve loved this app for quite some time as a little variety here and there is so helpful for my examen time. With the latest update, I don’t have to worry about losing my place when my phone autolocks so I can really focus on my time with God without paying so much attention to my phone. I can enter into long periods of prayer between pages without lugging around a book. Fantastic app and so grateful for the latest update!

Great Concept. Frustrating App.

The concept is great however, the app has several shortcomings. If your phone falls asleep, when you wake it up seconds later, you will be in a new lesson. It also seems that there is some sound associated with this app but I am unable to determine how to turn the sound on. When I click the speaker, it changes to a “muted” symbol. When I unmute it… no sound. Volume is up. Bluetooth is off. Not intuitive or simply buggy. I have an iPhone 13 Pro OS 16.0.3

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This has been a great help to me.

It is so helpful

I have really had good reflections while reading these and contemplating my response. I love the variety of catagoties offered. The only problem with the app is that it turns off too soon. If I sit and reflect without touching the screen it turns off and sends me to the home page or a totally different examen. There is no picking up where you left off—and this is distracting—breaking the train of thought as I have to go and search for the title and page I was previously on.

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