Young Jesuits and lay partners in the Chinese Province have developed a prayer app in Chinese to promote Ignatian Spirituality to Chinese speakers around the world.
The app, which is still in its development phase but is already available to web users, is chock-full of prayer resources. The Prayer Corner inspired by Pray As You Go encourages people to develop the habit of daily contemplation. From Mondays through Fridays, users are invited to 15 minutes of guided contemplation based on the Gospel of the day. Then on Saturdays, there is a guided Examen, a prayer that helps one review one’s day, or in this case one’s week, in the presence of God. On Sundays, the app provides a recollection or longer form of prayer lasting about 45 minutes.
Another feature is Pilgrims on a Journey, where people from all walks of life share about their spiritual encounters and prayer life. Users can also take inspiration from Ignatius’ Thought for the Day, and listen to audio books or watch short videos on Ignatian Spirituality. Besides those, there are written meditations on the daily readings taken from Shalom and provided by the Hong Kong Christian Life Community, as well as homilies in a section aptly called, “The Plaza of the Word”.
The developers of the app hope that through this platform more Chinese-speaking people can grow deeper in their relationship with the Lord, and live a more meaningful life through the gift of Ignatian Spirituality.
Currently, the prayer app can be accessed through this link, and will be available on the App Store soon.