Ignatius Loyola strides through the snow at the Jesuit Retreat House in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Photo by the Law and Gospel blogger. Go here for more on Ignatian retreats.
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I am on retreat with some forty Boston College students. For five days, we are keeping silence together and attending to the mystery of God. During a meeting with other guides, an older Jesuit remarked that those who shared the long retreat–thirty days in silence–emerge as lifelong friends, even without having spoken to each other. [...]
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Maureen Waldron of Creighton University thinks that Jesuits should make special efforts to expand the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises to include the lay people who work in Jesuit/Ignatian ministries. “Freely offering them the Exercises, will support partners in ministry in exploring more deeply the roots of Ignatian spirituality and help them have a clearer [...]
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The Exercises give us the confidence that grows from personal experience, says Jim Conroy, SJ, on Busted Halo. “It gives to men and women who have that experience of God the ability to speak out of that truth of their experience. It’s not what Father said or what Sister said; it’s what I know from [...]
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