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Vocations
Vocation comes from the Latin vox, meaning voice. It implies that you are being called by God to a particular state or course of...
Spiritual Exercises in Art
This is a stained glass window created by Dennis McNally, SJ, depicting three of the principal meditations in the Spiritual Exercises. The artist explains:
The...
Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Now
Ignatius Loyola experienced a profound mystical vision on the banks of the Cardoner river in northern Spain. He did not describe it any detail. ...
Ignatian Prayer and the Imagination
Ignatian prayer places great emphasis on the power of the imagination to deepen our relationship with God. One of the principal forms of prayer...
Suscipe, the Radical Prayer
By Amy Welborn
Adapted from The Words We Pray
Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that...
Pray with Your Imagination
By David L. Fleming, SJ
From What Is Ignatian Spirituality?
Ignatius would never have thought of himself as a highly educated intellectual. He had an advanced...
What Are the Spiritual Exercises?
The Spiritual Exercises grew out of Ignatius Loyola's personal experience as a man seeking to grow in union with God and to discern God's...
St. Ignatius Loyola
St. Ignatius Loyola was born in 1491, one of 13 children of a family of minor nobility in northern Spain. As a young man Ignatius Loyola...
An Outline of the Spiritual Exercises
First Principle and Foundation
God's creative, unconditional love and call for total response.
A positive sense of God, self, creation.
Desire for freedom.
First Week:...
Ignatius’ Three-Part Vision
David L. Fleming, SJ, a renowned spiritual director and commentator on the Spiritual Exercises, describes Ignatius Loyola's vision of life, work, and love.
It's often...