Christmas Prayers: Church of Cards

By Van Winter

St. Ignatius finished the Spiritual Exercises in 1524. He wrote them as a set of instructions, a method for encountering God through imagination, examination, and desire. Christmas Prayers is a working translation of that method into cards.

Seventy-eight cards. Eight sacred categories. Two readings per card: the consolation face and the desolation face, one for peace, one for resistance. Twelve spreads map each to a distinct exercise from the Exercises. The result is a combinatory prayer practice: not fortune-telling, not self-help, but a daily or occasional structure for the kind of interior prayer Ignatius called finding God in all things.

The card is the prompt. The prayer is the point.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMND19WR
• ISBN13: 9798160705033
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"