Category: Ignatian
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INTRODUCTION TO IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY
Ignatian spirituality, similar in most aspects to, but distinct from Jesuit spirituality, is a Catholic spirituality founded on the experiences of the 16th-century Spanish Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. The main idea of this form of spirituality comes from Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, the aim of which is to help one “conquer oneself and to regulate one’s life in such…
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THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Human beings are created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord,’[18] and by means of doing thisto save their souls.[19] 3The other things on the face of the earth are created for the human beings, to helpthem in the pursuit of the end for which they are created.
