Reviewing and Noting Down Your Prayer Exercise
The Review is a distinct spiritual exercise used in the Spiritual Exercises by which the pilgrim reflects on his/her own experiences of...
Preparing Our Souls to Meet the Risen Christ: The Virtue of Gratitude
In preparing our souls over these next 40 days to meet the Risen Christ, we are called to this season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving,...
Our Purpose and Destiny: Praying with the 1st Principle and Foundation
“I am created to praise, love, and serve God.” In beginning the Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius invites us to first pray over the 1st...
The Rosary: A Gospel Contemplation on the Life of Christ and Mary, the Mother of God
“With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary, are led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ, and to...
Follow Jesus Along the Way: A Self-Directed Lenten Retreat*
Beginning at the conspiracy against Jesus and the anointing up Bethany, we continue on into the entry into Jerusalem, and then the...
Praying with Your Blessed History
At the beginning each prayer period, offering yourself to the Lord. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,my understanding,...
The Seven Desires:Healing in the Present from the Past for the Future
These seven God-given human desires are written in every heart and are basic needs to our survival and flourishing. to be seen and...
Discernment & Decision-Making Process: Notes from St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises
All decisions are a means to an end, but where? and with who? and for Who? In the fields of cognitive research, psychologists and...
The Who and What are the 'spirits' in the 14 Rules of St. Ignatius
Discernment in the Spiritual Life is a supernatural-supported decision-making process of cooperating with God's grace to grow in holiness...