1. Ignatian Retreat Thursday, Conference #1
Cloisters on the Platte
Gretna, NE

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

3. 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, . . .,

4. 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.

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

6. Heart vs. Head Role of Director Silence

7. God Acting With or Without Our Knowledge

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

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

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

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

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

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