Until the time of his death he conducted spirituality workshops and training sessions there and throughout Canada, the United States, Britain, Ireland, Spain, India and Japan. He served as director of Loyola House, Guelph Canada for eight years. In his last few years he lived in the Jesuit community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from where he continued to foster the work of Ignatian spirituality with its various connections such as Christian Life Communities, communal forms of spirituality, on-going spiritual mentoring, personally directed retreats, spirituality and group processes, consensual and participatory forms of decision-making, etc.

          His original book, "Spiritual Freedom: from an experience of the Ignatian Exercises to the art of spiritual direction"(1973) has become a classic.  Spiritual Freedom 2^nd Edition, is now revised and updated, in a completely new format and with several new chapters explaining how Ignatian thought applies to our present world. Using his own extensive experience as a spiritual guide, John English leads the reader through the meditations of the Spiritual Exercises.

          About this book, Marie Schwan, CSJ wrote: "English is always true to the Exercises, always sensitive to the retreatant. I have no doubt that my copy of the second edition of Spiritual Freedom will soon be as dog-eared and worn as my copy of the first."

          At the time of John English's death, Michael Higgins of St. Jerome's University,Waterloo, wrote an article in the Toronto Star, concerning John English's passing, entitled, "Canadian Jesuit Embodied Bracing Power Of Joy" (click title). 
 
 

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Some Personal Reflections  On The Development Of The Personally Directed Retreat Movement  And The  Work Of J. J. English, S.J. Through The Guelph Centre Of Spirituality