The Spiritual Exercises

This is not a book to be read – but a book to be experienced. What is meant by this is that the manual was never intended to be read, curled up by the fire, you would be inevitably disappointed (as famously Thomas Merton was). It has no literary or aesthetic pretensions. Ignatius intended it to be a......more

Just as taking a walk, journeying on foot, and running are bodily exercises, so we call Spiritual Exercises every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate attachments, and, after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God in the disposition of our life fo......more

Be advised, The Spiritual Exercises is a sort of religious exercise routine for developing the spirit; it is not a treatise on theology or an account of the life of this great saint. At the hands of a prudent spiritual director, this manual is sure to bear much fruit in the life of an individual on......more

Ignatius is very masculine, medieval, and military but nonetheless would recommend everyone to do an 8 day......more