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Sign As You Pray is a sign language adaptation of Pray As You Go for DEAF people. Using Sign Language, for now, BSL! 

We use/show different ways of PRAYING… 
using Scripture / Bible stories to help us relate to GOD and to Jesus… 

The EXAMEN is a way of reviewing one’s lived DAY [week, month or year] 

LECTIO DIVINA is a slow meditation by reading and thinking about the bible story or bible text eg PSALM, or other bits of the Bible/Gospel etc. We read the bible slowly a few times, and ponder / reflect over our reading, and our reaction to the message in the bible… 

We can also pray/meditate as we WALK – using the Labyrinth or a bible text as we walk e.g. walk to Emmaus… 

Some Gospel stories are suitable for CONTEMPLATION – so we imagine the scene in which the story happens, imagine we are there, perhaps as one of the participants, disciples, or by-standers… a ‘fly on the wall’!

Ahhh – me? Who am I?! 

I’m Fr. Paul Fletcher, a born Deaf Jesuit Priest … ‘JESUIT’? = member of a RC religious group named the ‘Society of Jesus’. I’ve been a Jesuit since 1988 and was ordained a priest in Liverpool Cathedral 1997. 

The Society of Jesus was formed in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish man who gave his life to Jesus Christ following a long convalescence from a cannon-ball injury to his leg at Pamplona, Spain, during the Navarre war with France in 1521. 

To cut a long story short Ignatius formed the SPIRITUAL EXERCISES which helped many women and men to grow in their prayer with God and with Jesus.  

So, IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY which is used in many retreat houses around the world for all people, women and men, of any faith and none; it helps if one is a Christian BUT ANYONE can pray to God!