Share Guide

What is it?

Sharing with God is talking honestly, just as we would with a dear friend. We can talk to any Person of the Trinity that we relate to the most.  It can help to visualise the Person of God standing or sitting before us. Picture the face and gaze of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit. This is a place to come just as we are, with no pretence – we can be totally ourselves before our God who loves us.

Practice:

Sharing with Jesus

Imagine sitting or standing close to Jesus. Speak to Him, in a soft voice, or in our heart, or in our mind, whatever way is more comfortable.

Saint Ignatius calls this conversation a ‘colloquy’, and says:

“A colloquy is made, properly speaking, in the way one friend speaks to another, or a servant to one in authority – now begging a favour, now accusing oneself of some misdeed, now telling one’s concerns and asking counsel about them. …. In the colloquies, we ought to converse and beg according to the subject matter; that is, in accordance with whether I find myself tempted or consoled, desire to possess one virtue or another, or to dispose myself in one way or another, or to experience sorrow or joy over the matter I am contemplating. And finally, I ought to ask for what I more earnestly desire in regard to some particular matters”.

The Spiritual Exercises nos 54,199