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Living the Spiritual Exercises The Problem of the Fifth Week Whether the purpose of the Spiritual Exercises is primarily understood as the election of a state of life, or as a school of prayer, the image of the body in search of a spirit helps us to understand how the experience can shape our lives in the love and service of God. Download this article in PDF format by clicking here A Spirituality for Daily Life: The Letters of Ignatius of Loyola A reading of six of the letters of St Ignatius draws out a spirituality for everyday life. Each shows how the spiritual guidance on discernment, love and commitment is embodied in a personal relationship. Echoes of Grace: The Gifts of the Spiritual Exercises in the Fifth Week Through her research with givers of the Spiritual Exercises, Anne Pate explores the importance of remembering and retelling the story of the experience so that life can be written into a new narrative. Living the Spiritual Exercises: A Conversation with Simon Bishop Simon Bishop is a British Jesuit who experienced a call though the Spiritual Exercises to be with the Lord. The Editor interviews him about how this invitation has influenced his life from the classroom to the operating theatre. The Ignatian Charism: A Lay Perspective A layman who has worked closely with the Jesuits in Spain explores how non-Jesuits are discovering the Ignatian charism through an incarnate spirituality which recentres the person upon God within the wider Church. Ignatius’ Fifth Week A former editor of The Way outlines a workshop he gave at the St Beuno’s conference showing how Ignatius’ advice to the nascent Society of Jesus can help people in all walks of life to live the Spiritual Exercises. Living the Spiritual Exercises as a Married Couple and in the Christian Life Community A married couple explain how the graces they have received from the Spiritual Exercises are enabling them to live their lives as members of the Christian Life Community to the full. The Examen and Ignatian Imagination The Spiritual Exercises open up an imaginative space where we can encounter God. If we implement the routine practice of the Examen in our everyday lives then we can learn to imagine ourselves anew each day, under God’s guiding hand. Discerning the Ignatian Lay Vocation: The Christian Life Community The Christian Life Community offers its experience of God in everyday life as a lay Ignatian vocation committed to mission in the service of the Church lived out in the world.. The Spiritual Exercises Forty Years On Even after the experience of the Spiritual Exercises begins to recede in the imagination, it can remain as an anchor that gives stability as we make our way forward, allowing its dispositions and graces to permeate our lives. How Pedro Arrupe Lived the Spiritual Exercises in Yamaguchi Many episodes in the life of Pedro Arrupe demonstrate how he embodied the Spirit he had encountered through the Spiritual Exercises. His imprisonment by the Japanese military police during the Second World War was the occasion of a profound spiritual experience. From the Foreword THE DANISH PHILOSOPHER Sřren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) wrote, ‘life must be understood backwards. But … it must be lived forwards.’ Those who have made the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius will understand what he meant. Once undergone, the experience can never be repeated exactly as it was, but rather gives impetus to seek out new experiences graced with all the freshness of the first. In whatever way the Spiritual Exercises have been undertaken, and in whatever measure, they provide a touchstone for the life of discipleship that follows. Their dynamics and dispositions are reworked in innumerable and ever-varied ways through the loving discernment of all those who make them.Philip Harrison SJ Please click here to subscribe to The Way, | ||
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