Spirituality / Spiritualité

The Spiritual Exercises of St.Ignatius Loyola are at the source of Jesuit spirituality in all its developments over the centuries. Below you will find a menu with the various categories in which this area is organized. Select a category and you will be taken to the list of documents in that category. These categories are inter-related and approximate;
the entries that interest you may be found in a cognate category.For access click on the title of the desired entry.

Les Exercises Spirituels de S. Ignace sont à l'origine de la spiritualité jésuite telle qu'elle s'est développée au cours des siècles. À la suite vous trouverez la liste des catégories qui organisent ce domaine. Votre sélection vous dirigera vers la liste des documents de la catégorie que vous avez choisie. Les catégories sont approximatives et reliées; ce que vous cherchez pourrait être trouvé dans une catégorie apparentée.Pour accéder au document voulu cliquez sur le titre.

The spiritual exercises / Les exercises spirituels

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A Study Edition
This valuable work, with introduction,sets side by side in columns the Latin Vulgate and the Spanish Autograph, with their translations in English.(Eric Jensen)
The Dynamic Structure of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
This article deals with the structure of the Exercises as a whole. It begins by showing how the entire progression of the Exercises is foreshadowed in the Principle and Foundation, and develops the movement through the four weeks with election as the pivotal moment. (J-M Laporte)
Three Ways, Four Degrees, Four Weeks?
This article, published in The Way, 2 (pp. 43-53),brings the traditional 3 ways of spiritual progress and Richard of St.Victor's 4 degrees of violent love to bear on the four weeks of the Ignatian exercises, with a view to bettering our understanding of the progression of the four weeks. This version is the last before publication.
(J-M Laporte)
Les trois voies, les quatres dégrés, les quatre semaines?
Cet article, apparu dans The Way, Avril 2022, met en interaction les 3 voies traditionnelles du progrès spirituel, les quatre degrés de l'amour violent de Richard of St.Victor's, et les quatre semaines des Exercises Spirituels, pour nous permettre de mieux comprendre la progression de ces semaines. Cette version est la dernière avant la publication de l'article. (J-M Laporte)
The Second Week
This analysis of the movement of the second week is designed to show how it moves the exercitant towards the election. (J-M Laporte)
Consolation and Desolation
This article is on rules 7 8 and 9 of the first set of rules for discernment in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, (#320-322). It offers a theological perspective on the alternation of consolation and desolation central to these rules.It it indebted to the excellent work of Fr. Timothy Gallagher. (J-M Laporte)
Grace and the Spiritual Exercises
This text results from a work-shop for the Association for the Spiritual Exercises Apostolate in Saint John NB. Five units develop different facets of Paul's teaching on grace and relate them to the Exercises. (J-M Laporte)
Social Sin and the Exercises
How the more recent attention to social sin might impact the giving of the Exercises. A text from a Spanish Jesuit. (José Aldunate)
Readjusting the Exercises
This article gives witness to the beginnings of the renewal of the Spiritual Exercises in the mid 1900's by one of the pioneers of this movement
among the Jesuits of Canada.(David Asselin)

Prayer in various modes / La prière en de différents modes

Various helps for prayer
This is a compilation of various helps for prayer: texts, helps for entering into prayer and praying (John Veltri)
Centering and Ignatian Prayer
An experience of a centering prayer retreat by one trained in Ignatian prayer, with various suggestions on how to enter into this form of prayer (J-M Laporte)
Meditation, Contemplation, and the Wandering of our Minds?
With the guidance of Richard of St. Victor, this brief essay seeks to clarify the difference between meditation and contemplation, and to highlight the role that our wandering minds with their distractions play in our prayer -- both negative and positive.(J-M Laporte)
Brokenness and Inner Healing
Helps for the prayer of the one suffering from various forms of brokenness and in need of healing (John Veltri)
Singing and Dancing with the New Musicale of Creation
This is a reflection on the wonders of the universe with the help of emerging new science, with a view to prayer on this topic (John English)
Awareness Exercise
The Awareness Exercise is a newer form of examen based on the daily examen one learns in the Spiritual Exercises. It invites one to become aware of the feelings and eventrs of one's consciousness as a way of discerning our path.(Gregory Carruthers)

Our spiritual journey / Notre cheminement spirituel

Prayer and integral human growth: help or hindrance?
Can prayer help with our integral human growth? Yes, but it can also hinder it. John Veltri draws upon his experience and his readings to offer his reflections on this. (John Veltri)
Brokenness and Inner Healing
This article offers basic principles and suggests approaches to prayer that can help us in living with the wounds we have suffered. (John Veltri)
Going around in circles? Not quite.
We sometimes feel that in our spiritual life we are going around in circles and not getting anywhere. This reflection offers us a different understanding
that may help us. Think not of a circle but of a spiral. (J-M Laporte)
Prayer and Action: An Ignatian Paradox (appendice de Paul Valadier en français)
"Pray as if everything depends on you, act as if everything depends on you." Many have learned a version of this Ignatian saying which says the exact opposite. Some Jesuit scholars argue in favour of this counter-intuitive version and offer a rich teaching on Ignatian election. (J-M Laporte)

Accompanying persons / Accompagner les personnes

Accompanying groups / Accompagner les groupes

Jesuit Life / La vie jésuite

The Three Vows
This document contains an introduction and sections on poverty, chastity, and obedience, especially the spirituality which accompanies them. This material was originally destined for Jesuit novices, but more broadly it can apply to other religious communities. (J.M. Laporte)
Les Trois Voeux
Dans ce document on trouve une introduction et des sections sur la pauvreté, la chasteté, et l'obéissance, et surtout sur leur spiritualité sousjacente. Ce docoment était destiné à des novices jésuites anglophones, mais dans les grandes lignes peuvent s'appliquer aux voeux autres communautés religieuses. (J-M Laporte)
Ignatian Identity and Mission: Beyond GC 35
The 35th General Congregation reflected on the trend in the Society to give significant roles to non-Jesuit collaborators and to recognize institutions and apostolates that are not under Jesuit direction but share the Ignatian charism. What are the implications of this? (J-M Laporte)