The Feast of the Chair of St Peter the Apostle | Saturday 1 March 2025

Welcome to the Saturday Examen.


Several of our readings this week come from the book of Ecclesiasticus. Its writer offers a kind of “distilled wisdom”, reflecting on what it means to live a good life in a complex society. In our examen this week, you might ask for a wisdom of this kind. Start by asking God to help you bring to mind one situation in which you have behaved wisely this week.

Now notice more fully the way in which God has led you through the last week. Where were you aware of being led by God at the time? Where, perhaps, can you see more clearly God’s guidance now?

As Ecclesiasticus recognises, it is one thing to know what God wants, and another thing to carry out God’s wishes. How have you reacted, in the last few days, to the knowledge of what God wants from you?

Now speak to God for a few moments of what you’ve been noting in this prayer: the highs and lows, the different moments, good and bad.

Finally, look forward to the week ahead. What wisdom will you need from God to live faithfully as a disciple of Christ in the days ahead…

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.