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Welcome Back!
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
Treasurer Karen Peterpaul with CDA Texas State 2nd Vice Regent Terrie Vacek. June 2021 Meeting.
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
Congratulations Kaitlynn Glandt! Good luck at Texas Tech University.
New TX State 2nd Vice Regent
2021 Local Scholarship Winner
New TX State 2nd Vice Regent
Celebrating Terrie Vacek the newly elected CDA Texas State 2nd Vice Regent.
52nd Biennial Texas State Convention 2021
State First Place Newsletter
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Terrie Vacek, Court #2699 Newsletter Chair
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Camille Villaver, Court #2699 Webmaster
A Message from Our Court Chaplain
For the Good of the Order - A Message from Court Chaplain Deacon Rick Vogel
With eagerness, let us continue this journey into a very practical and rich form of prayer. We now look at St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Mystic and founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and his daily prayer – The Examen Prayer.
St. Ignatius most famously remembered as the founder of the Jesuits and his spiritual classic, The Spiritual Exercises, also developed a simple daily prayer, The Examen Prayer. This prayer was very important to St. Ignatius, to the point that he required those in his religious community to say this prayer, even if it meant to sacrificing other prayers.
This daily prayer consists of five simple steps: Gratitude, Intercessions, Review, Forgiveness and
Renew. Gratitude - what do we need to thank God for from this day? Intercessions - who or what is
on your heart that you would like to lift up to God this day? Review of the day in an hour-by-hour, or
period-by-period, search out those times during the day where you felt God was present or not
present. Forgiveness allows us to seek reconciliation with God and others. Renewal is looking over
the day in light the first four steps. This allows us to recognize the good in our day and the desire to
bring that forward into the next day. But, it also helps us realize where we failed today and an
eagerness to bring God deeper into the next day with specificity for our failures today.
St. Ignatius asked that your prayer time be at least 10 minutes, but no longer than 15 minutes. This
is not meant to be a deep contemplative prayer time, but a daily examination of where was God active
in your life and where God seemed far from your life during the day. We do not have to go through
all the steps if the 15 minutes are up. If, as an example, you spend 15 minutes in gratitude and never
make it any further within the that time, we should end the prayer and feel satisfied in the working
of the Holy Spirit for our realization of how much we have to be grateful for. The importance of getting through all the steps is less important than the quality of time spent. The quality of time spent in daily prayer is St. Ignatius main thrust in the Examen Prayer.
Over the coming months, we will unpack each of the steps offering thoughts on each of them. Until
then, let us all strive to become closer to the Lord.
With much eagerness for the Lord,
Deacon Rick Vogel
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