The Way 64/3 (July 2025) Living the Spiritual Exercises

THE DANISH PHILOSOPHER Søren 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.

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