On this Fourth Sunday, we are practicing “non-zoom” worship as we encourage all of us to take time to reflect on the year. Pause in time alone or with family that is present and pray for yourself, your community and our world. To center your time of prayer, here is a contemplative reading based on the Ignatian Practice of imaginative prayer. The reading is from Luke 2:22-40. Reflect also on the relationships, work and places that God is putting on your heart for the new year.

Ignatian Contemplation is prayer with Scripture. It is meeting God through story. The prayer develops as you “live into” a Scripture story with all your senses and imagination. You become a participant in the story, and you continue in the story in your heart, mind, imagination, spirit and body after the reading ends.