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Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« on: June 01, 2013, 01:53:22 AM »
The Spiritual Exercises were to form the basis of many retreats given to priests, religious, and lay people. They are offered in closed sessions of a weekend, five, eight or the full thirty days at retreat houses as well as retreats in everyday life made at home over the course of about nine months (technically referred to as a 19th Annotation retreat).

The book of the Spiritual Exercises is not a text to be read as a work of non-fiction, but exercises to be prayed usually under the guidance of a trained spiritual director. The original Spanish text of the Exercises was translated into two Latin versions (the Versio Prima and the Vulgate) which were approved by Pope Paul III in 1548.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 01:54:00 AM »
PRAYER OF FATHER DIERTINS

ROUSE up, O Lord, and foster the spirit of the Exercises which Blessed Ignatius
labored to spread abroad, that we, too, may be filled with it and be zealous to love
what he loved and do what he taught! Through Christ our Lord.

AMEN


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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2013, 02:27:04 AM »
ANNOTATIONS

TO GIVE SOME UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES WHICH FOLLOW, AND TO ENABLE HIM WHO IS TO GIVE AND HIM WHO IS TO RECEIVE THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES.



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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2013, 02:27:35 AM »
First Annotation:

The first Annotation is that by this name of Spiritual
Exercises is meant every way of examining one’s conscience, of meditating, of
contemplating, of praying vocally and mentally, and of performing other spiritual
actions, as will be said later. For as strolling, walking and running are bodily
exercises, so every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all the
disordered tendencies, and, after it is rid, to seek and find the Divine Will as to the
management of one’s life for the salvation of the soul, is called a Spiritual Exercise.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2013, 02:28:37 AM »
Second Annotation:

The second is that the person who gives to another
the way and order in which to meditate or contemplate, ought to relate faithfully
the events of such Contemplation or Meditation, going over the Points with only a
short or summary development. For, if the person who is making the
Contemplation, takes the true groundwork of the narrative, and, discussing and
considering for himself, finds something which makes the events a little clearer or
brings them a little more home to him -- whether this comes through his own
reasoning, or because his intellect is enlightened by the Divine power -- he will get
more spiritual relish and fruit, than if he who is giving the Exercises had much
explained and amplified the meaning of the events. For it is not knowing much, but
realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2013, 02:30:25 AM »
Third Annotation:

The third: As in all the following Spiritual Exercises, we
use acts of the intellect in reasoning, and acts of the will in movements of the
feelings: let us remark that, in the acts of the will, when we are speaking vocally or
mentally with God our Lord, or with His Saints, greater reverence is required on
our part than when we are using the intellect in understanding.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2013, 02:34:14 AM »
Fourth Annotation:

The fourth: The following Exercises are divided into
four parts:


First, the consideration and contemplation on the sins;

Second, the life of Christ our Lord up to Palm Sunday inclusively;

Third, the Passion of Christ our Lord;

Fourth, the Resurrection and Ascension, with the three Methods of Prayer.
Though four weeks, to correspond to this division, are spent in the Exercises,
it is not to be understood that each Week has, of necessity, seven or eight days. For,
as it happens that in the First Week some are slower to find what they seek --
namely, contrition, sorrow and tears for their sins -- and in the same way some are
more diligent than others, and more acted on or tried by different spirits; it is
necessary sometimes to shorten the Week, and at other times to lengthen it. The
same is true of all the other subsequent Weeks, seeking out the things according to
the subject matter. However, the Exercises will be finished in thirty days, a little
more or less.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2013, 02:38:44 AM »
FIRST EXERCISE

IT IS A MEDITATION WITH THE THREE POWERS ON THE FIRST, THE SECOND AND THE THIRD SIN

It contains in it, after one Preparatory Prayer and two Preludes, three chief
Points and one Colloquy



Prayer
The Preparatory Prayer is to ask grace of God our Lord that all my
intentions, actions and operations may be directed purely to the service and praise
of His Divine Majesty.

First Prelude

The First Prelude is a composition, seeing the place.
Here it is to be noted that, in a visible contemplation or meditation -- as, for
instance, when one contemplates Christ our Lord, Who is visible -- the composition
will be to see with the sight of the imagination the corporeal place where the thing
is found which I want to contemplate. I say the corporeal place, as for instance, a
Temple or Mountain where Jesus Christ or Our Lady is found, according to what I
want to contemplate. In an invisible contemplation or meditation -- as here on the
Sins -- the composition will be to see with the sight of the imagination and consider
that my soul is imprisoned in this corruptible body, and all the compound in this
valley, as exiled among brute beasts: I say all the compound of soul and body.

Second Prelude

The second is to ask God our Lord for what I want and desire.
The petition has to be according to the subject matter; that is, if the
contemplation is on the Resurrection, one is to ask for joy with Christ in joy; if it is
on the Passion, he is to ask for pain, tears and torment with Christ in torment.
Here it will be to ask shame and confusion at myself, seeing how many have
been damned for only one mortal sin, and how many times I deserved to be
condemned forever for my so many sins.

Note
Before all Contemplations or Meditations, there ought always to be
made the Preparatory Prayer, which is not changed, and the two Preludes already
mentioned, which are sometimes changed, according to the subject matter.

First Point
The first Point will be to bring the memory on the First Sin,
which was that of the Angels, and then to bring the intellect on the same,
discussing it; then the will, wanting to recall and understand all this in order to
make me more ashamed and confound me more, bringing into comparison with the
one sin of the Angels my so many sins, and reflecting, while they for one sin were
cast into Hell, how often I have deserved it for so many.
I say to bring to memory the sin of the Angels, how they, being created in
grace, not wanting to help themselves with their liberty to reverence and obey their
Creator and Lord, coming to pride, were changed from grace to malice, and hurled
from Heaven to Hell; and so then to discuss more in detail with the intellect: and
then to move the feelings more with the will.

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Re: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2013, 02:40:32 AM »
Second Point
The second is to do the same -- that is, to bring the Three
Powers -- on the sin of Adam and Eve, bringing to memory how on account of that
sin they did penance for so long a time, and how much corruption came on the
human race, so many people going the way to Hell.
I say to bring to memory the Second Sin, that of our First Parents; how after
Adam was created in the field of Damascus and placed in the Terrestrial Paradise,
and Eve was created from his rib, being forbidden to eat of the Tree of Knowledge,
they ate and so sinned, and afterwards clothed in tunics of skins and cast from
Paradise, they lived, all their life, without the original justice which they had lost,
and in many labors and much penance. And then to discuss with the understanding
more in detail; and to use the will as has been said.

Third Point
The third is likewise to do the same on the Third particular Sin
of any one who for one mortal sin is gone to Hell -- and many others without
number, for fewer sins than I have committed.
I say to do the same on the Third particular Sin, bringing to memory the
gravity and malice of the sin against one’s Creator and Lord; to discuss with the
understanding how in sinning and acting against the Infinite Goodness, he has been
justly condemned forever; and to finish with the will as has been said.

Colloquy
Imagining Christ our Lord present and placed on the Cross, let me
make a Colloquy, how from Creator He is come to making Himself man, and from
life eternal is come to temporal death, and so to die for my sins.
Likewise, looking at myself, what I have done for Christ, what I am doing for
Christ, what I ought to do for Christ.
And so, seeing Him such, and so nailed on the Cross, to go over that which
will present itself.

The Colloquy is made, properly speaking, as one friend speaks to another, or
as a servant to his master; now asking some grace, now blaming oneself for some
misdeed, now communicating one’s affairs, and asking advice in them.
And let me say an OUR FATHER.


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