The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Item Number: 1585
THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA - this work has been changing lives for over 400 years. It outlines the Church's classic means of orienting one's soul toward God and eternal salvation. And this is probably the best edition of the book available anywhere because it is a self-taught version (i.e., it does not require a retreat master). Explained step-by-step for independent use, this book enables a person to make a retreat on his own. THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES cover a period of four weeks, but they can be shortened. They are designed to make a person stop to examine the direction of of his life and seriously to redirect himself toward Heaven and away from Hell.
These meditations are intended to engage much more than the mind! St. Ignatius emphasizes that THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES are intended to result in firm decisions of the will that are to be carried out for the rest of one's life. This is a book which inspires the reader to make a new and holy beginning to his life-no matter "where he is at" and no matter how sinful he may have been up to the present time, THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS is a book that is still destined to do tremendous good and to help save many souls from eternal perdition by enabling them to focus on and change the fundamental direction of thier lives.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 07/31
Tridentine Calendar - 07/31
Patron Of:
Retreats, Jesuits
Profile
Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children. Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier, entering the army in 1517, and serving in several campaigns. Wounded in the leg by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on 20 May 1521, an injury that left him partially crippled for life. During his recuperation the only books he had access to were The Golden Legend, a collection of lives of the saints, and the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Carthusian. These books, and the time spent in contemplation, changed him.
On his recovery he took a vow of chastity, hung his sword before the altar of the Virgin of Montserrat, and donned a pilgrim's robes. Lived in a cave from 1522 to 1523, contemplating the way to live a Christian life. Pilgrim to Rome and the Holy Land in 1523, where he worked to convert Muslims. In 1528 he began studying theology in Barcelona, Alcala, and Paris, receiving his degree on 14 March 1534. His meditations, prayers, visions and insights led to forming the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus on 15 August 1534; it received papal approval in 1541. Friend of James Lainez, Alonso Salmerón, Nicholas Bobadilla, Simón Rodriguez, Blessed Peter Faber, and Saint Francis Xavier, the group that formed the core of the new Society. He never used the term Jesuit, which was coined as an insult by his opponents; the Society today uses the term with pride. He traveled Europe and the Holy Lands, then settled in Rome to direct the Jesuits. His health suffered in later years, and he was nearly blind at death.
The Jesuits today have over 500 universities and colleges, 30,000 members, and teach over 200,000 students each year.
Born
1491 at Loyola, Guipuzcoa, Spain as Inigo Lopez de Loyola
Died
of fever on 31 July 1556 at Rome, Italy
Beatified
27 July 1609 by Pope Paul V
Canonized
12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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