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

by Sean Salai

It’s time to take your spiritual pulse, re-orient yourself to your Creator, and seek His guidance to live your faith more seriously. And there is no better way to do so than by delving into Saint Ignatius’ classic Spiritual Exercises, which started the modern retreat movement and played a pivotal role in the conversions of many saints to a radical following of Christ. This book is one of very few that can truly be said to have changed the world. Now, let it change you!  
 
This beautiful deluxe edition has been edited for the modern reader by Father Sean Salai, S.J., and contains a new preface to help orient readers to this timeless classic.
 
Arranged as a DIY retreat, it is an essential part of developing a fruitful and consistent interior life, a soldier-saint's battle plan for spiritual warfare.
 
Peppered with quotes from Jesuit saints and spiritual masters, this new deluxe edition of The Spiritual Exercises brings St. Ignatius’ powerful spirituality to a new generation of Christians striving to become saints themselves.

Genres: Religion

384 pages, Hardcover

Published January 15, 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