1. I give thanks to God our Lord for the favors received. In the prayerful reflection on experience, I am opened up to God's active, generous presence in the events, relationships, and situations of choice in the period of time contemplated. There is a deepening sense of our life as blessed by God, as filled with God's presence and action. the movement of mind and heart is toward gratitude and a desire to be even more attentive and responsive in the future.

2. I ask for enlightenment, to know where I have turned away from God's presence and call that I may be set free to serve more generously. The prayer focuses on the self in the presence of a loving God who not only enlightens but empowers me to greater freedom and authenticity in loving. The prayer is for the grace of a discerning heart and a more profound intimacy with the mind and heart of Christ.

3. I review my thoughts, words, and deeds since my last period of reflection. What I seek is not to be aware but to understand in a way that lead to a purification of choice. What has been happening to me? How is the Lord working in me? What is God asking me? The centering of attention is on God and on God's call and on self as responsive to god's initiative toward companionship in service, a response of love to love that is a giving and receiving characterized more in deeds than words.

4. I ask the pardon of God our Lord for my failure to respond in love. It is in the presence of the divine forgiving and reconciling love expressed so vividly in the self-gift of the Crucified Christ that I know myself as a "loved sinner." This "Good News" moves the heart to respond in more generous service, a deeper following of Jesus, a response of gratitude for God's unconditional love.