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Why Make the Spiritual Exercises?

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The best way to savor the graces of Ignatian spirituality (usually) is to make the Spiritual Exercises. Opportunities to do this have greatly expanded in recent years. The most common way to make the Exercises now is a “19th annotation” retreat, named for one way that Ignatius Loyola himself offered the Exercises in the 16th century. This version of the Exercises takes about nine months, and involves a commitment to daily prayer and weekly meetings with a spiritual director.

This video gives some good reasons to make the Exercises. It’s a production of the Jesuit Collaborative, a project that promotes the Spiritual Exercises and the ministries flowing from them.

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