Sin and Hell in the First Week of the Exercises
How might we appropriately reflect on our sinfulness.
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Ignatius Four Week Pilgrimage of Prayer
The Camino and the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola are both divided into four phases. They dovetail surprisingly well.
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Spiritual Exercises – 19th Annotation Pilgrimage
In the Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius encourages us to imagine ourselves into biblical stories. Walking the Camino, with this in mind, surprised me again how much of the Bible is journey stories.
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Soul of my Saviour
Jesus, may all that is you flow into me.
May your body and blood be my food and drink.
May your passion and death be my strength and life.
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How to Pray Like a Pilgrim – Camino Lessons from St Ignatius Loyola
Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises can be a focus, a lens, for our physical pilgrimage such as the Camino, and also for our inner pilgrimage.
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Ignatius 500
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
All that I am and all that I possess You have given me:
I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will.
Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.
Journeymen
Wandergesellen (“Journeymen”) practise their craft and wander. Normally, they travel for at least three years and a day – not returning home in that time. All they own, they carry with them, wrapped up.
Saint James the Great
Today is the Feast Day of Saint James the Great. Here is the reading of his martyrdom (Acts 11:27-12:3): At that time prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine over all the world; and this took
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