Ignatian Retreat Thursday, Conference #1 Cloisters on the Platte Gretna, NE https://www.piercedhearts.org/theology_heart/life_saints/st_ignatius_loyola.html

Spiritual Exercises Every way of examining one’s conscience, of meditating, of contemplating, of praying vocally and mentally, and of performing other spiritual actions. . .

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, . . .,

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.

Enter with great courage and generosity A.M.D.G. God in All Things

Heart vs. Head Role of Director Silence http://www.jesus-passion.com/Saint_Ignatius.htm

God Acting With or Without Our Knowledge

Structure of the Exercises Week 1—Loved Sinner Week 2—Jesus’ Life Week 3—The Passion and Death Week 4—Jesus’ Resurrection

Principle and Foundation Why Am I Here? To Praise, Reverence and Serve God to Save My Soul

Why Is Everything Else Here? Help Us to Achieve the End for Which We Are Created

So What? Use the Things that Help Rid Ourselves of Those Things That Do Not

Therefore, Indifference to All Created Things Desiring and Choosing Only Those Things Conducive to Our End

Prayerwork: A Consideration Principle and Foundation Explore the last year in light of the Examen