The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola: With Points for Personal Prayer From Jesuit Spiritual Masters

by Sean Salai

Is it time to take your spiritual pulse, re-orient yourself to your Creator, and seek His guidance to live your faith more seriously? The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola outline the rigorous self-examination and spiritual meditations St Ignatius set forth. Readers will learn how to make a new beginning on the path to holiness, repenting of their sins and attaining freedom from Satan's power. Though St Ignatius wrote The Spiritual Exercises as a handbook for a four week guided retreat, this edition contains step by step explanations suitable for independent use over any time period. This is a complete revision of the original TAN edition now with updated typesetting, fresh new cover, new size and quality binding, newly annotated quotations from Jesuit spiritual masters with self-guided journal exercises, a full restoration of the translation to improve readability, a fresh historical preface, and the same trusted content. As the only English-language edition of the Exercises currently available in hardcover with a ribbon on the market, this reverent updating makes the perfect gift idea for all admirers of Ignatius Loyola, the soldier-saint.

Genres: Religion

303 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2020

Reviews

[Corinne · Rating 4 out of 5]

"On the one hand is the acceptance of myself, in the profoundest depths of my intellectual nature, as a living frustration, an existential absurdity, ordered in electably toward a simply non-existent goal, magnetized, so to speak, by the abyss of nothingness, of what is not and can never be- a dynamism doomed eternally to temporary gratification but permanent unfulfillment. On the other hand lies the acceptance of my nature as drawn, magnetized toward an actually existing, totally fulfilling goal, which confers upon it total and magnificent meaningfulness and opens out before it a destiny filled with inexhaustible light and hope. On the one hand, the darkness of ultimate nothingness of what can never be; on the other, the fullness of ultimate Light, which already awaits our coming."

"From the perspective of his renewed Thomism, de Lubac believed that consciousness of existence led to consciousness of God himself, a 'discovery' that one could make by simply praying back over the events of an ordinary day."

"For St. Ignatius, a person who just sits and thinks about his problems does not really pray... "

"It begins with the unconditional, free, and passionate realization that my entire life, indeed the gift of my very self, belongs entirely to Jesus Christ to dispose as he pleases."

"... I can start by following the Jesuit maxim to 'do what you are doing,' completing the small duty in front of me with full attentiveness."

"At the moment of death, how would you wish you had conducted yourself in this deliberation? In the same way conduct yourself now."

"God wants you to learn to suffer tribulation without comfort and, submitting yourself entirely to Him, to grow in humility through tribulation."

"He is in the elements, He gives them existence; in plants, He gives them life; in animals, He gives them sensation. He is in you; and collecting all these degrees of being scattered through the rest of His creation, He unites them in you, and adds to them intelligence."

[Cynthia Wheelehan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was truly struggling with the Spiritual Exercises - but this book stopped me from giving up entirely and thank God it did.... Clear, well-written - I will be referring to this until I wear it out - then I will buy another copy and wear it out... #LifeChanging