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A


Accepting  The  Embrace Of God:  The Ancient Art Of  Lectio Divina 
Adapting The Spiritual Exercises -- Readjusting  The  Exercises: Social Sin  by  José Aldunate, SJ.
                           see also
Notes On Adapting The Exercises Of St. Ignatius by David T. Asselin,  SJ.
                           see also
Retreat Clippings --  Click here to open in separate page.
At The Beginning Of The Day  A short prayer at the start of the day
Annotation 19 --
                           -- see To You ... From Ignatius
Aquinas and Merton -- a comparison of their understandings of Contemplation
                             -- see Merton, Aquinas and Contemplation
Art Therapy
Awareness Examen see in addition Examen Of Consciousness and Awareness Exercise
                                  -- two ways and two names for the same exercise
Awareness Exercise -- by Gregory Carruthers, sj

Annotation [19] Spiritual Exercises
                                  -- explanation and study
                                  -- explanation in the form of Letter From St. Ignatius
Annotation [20] Spiritual Exercises
                                  -- explanation in the form of Letter From St. Ignatius

B


Beginning the Spiritual Direction Process
Beyond Individuation To Discipleship -- A Directory For The Spiritual Exercises
Blend Of Group Process And The Directed Retreat
Blessed History  see also  Remembering God's Presence In My History
Bodily Posture During Prayer -- A Brief Explanation
Body/Soul: A Meditation Of The Whole Person  by Joanne Alves
Books Of Spiritual Guidance
Brokenness And Inner Healing

C


Call To Deeper Relationship With God
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer Using A Mantra
Choosing Life: Significance Of Personal History In Decision-Making  by J.J. English
Chrysalis by Erik Oland
Church and the Sea of Life:  Ship or Lifeboat?  by Muldoon, Dawson and Veltri
Colloquy  also consult Talking WITH God -- A Brief Explanation
Collatio
Communal Decision-Making see Group Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
Communal Spirituality see Blend Of Group Process And The Directed Retreat
                                      also consult Twenty-Four Spiritual Exercises For
                                                       The New Story Of Universal Communion
Confirmation inside and outside the Spiritual Exercises
Connecting With The Earth: Experiencing The Sacred
Consensual Decision-Making see Group Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
Contemplation: different meanings of the term, Contemplation consult Gospel Contemplation
Contemplation To Gain Love
Conversion Cycle In Prayer Dynamics And Program Design
Creation
Creaturehood
Crowley, Joann

D


Daily Review Or Examen
Darkness: Readings and Poems
Dark Night  -- prayer material to accompany those called
                  to a deeper relationship with God
Day, meaning of
Dawson, Caroline
Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
Decision-Making -- helping another during the Spiritual Exercises
Developing A Discerning Heart
Dictionary Of Terms About Prayer
Directed Retreat and Group Processes
                                                see Group Processes And Blending Directed Retreat Methods
                                                see  Some Reflections On The Work Of John English
Directory For Those Giving The Spiritual Exercises
Directory For Those Giving The Spiritual Exercises  in a context of ecology and community
Discernment see Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
                                                or see Group Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
                                                or see Developing A Discerning Heart
Disposition Days  see also  Singing And Dancing With The Musicale Of Creation

E


Early Stages In Ongoing Spiritual Direction
East Blends With West In Meditation
Ecology And Spirituality    see Connecting With The Earth: Experiencing The Sacred
                                                    by J. Profit
                                            and  A Report On An Ecological Retreat  by J. Profit
                                            and  Ecology, A Spirituality of Reconciliation
                                            and  Twenty-Four Spiritual Exercises
                                               For The New Story Of Universal Communion
                                            and  Blend Of Group Process And The Directed Retreat
English, John  -- A Short Introductory Note
                        -- Some Reflections On The Work Of John English, SJ
                        -- Memorial Celebration Of John English's Passover
Enjoyment As An Expression Of Worship
Environmental Decline and Christian Contemplation  see Merton, Aquinas and Contemplation
Examen Of Consciousness  see in addition  Awareness Examen
                                              see also  Developing A Discerning Heart
                                              see also  Daily Review Or Examen
                                              see also Awareness Exercise -- by Gregory Carruthers, sj 
Experience Of the Exercises see My Experience Of The Spiritual Exercises
                                                        And Where We're Headed

F


Finding God In The Events Of Your Own Life
                                                -- a method of contemplating an event of your own life
First Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
First Principle And Foundation see also At The Beginning Of The Day
Five Steps In Discerning Decisions
Foliot, SJ, Robert

Forgiveness  consult  First Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
Fourth Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
 

G

God's Communication And Our Interior Awareness
God's Presence In My History see Blessed History
                                       and see also  Remembering God's Presence In My History
God Relates To Us Personally
Gospel Contemplation -- A Brief Explanation
Gospel Contemplation -- A Fuller Explanation
Gospel Contemplation -- Fullest Explanation
Glossary
Grace -- see God Relates To Us Personally; and Ourselves We Cannot Save
Graced History see Blessed History
Group Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
Group Prayer -- see Lectio Divina Shared In Community
                            also see Collatio
Group Processes And Blending Directed Retreat Methods
Guelph Centre of Spirituality
Guiding Directees In The Healing Mode
Guidelines For Discerning Spirits

H

Healing Of Memories For Oneself  (how to do this prayer)
                                   also see Brokenness And Inner Healing
                                   also see Transformative Meditations For Spiritual Healers  -- by Don Evans
Healing Mode And Spiritual Direction In The Spiritual Exercises
Helping Another To Develop One's Personal Myth
Helps For Personal Prayer
History Of Ministry Of the Spiritual Exercises Among American Jesuits
History And the Beginnings Of The Directed Retreat Movement In North America
                                     see  Some Reflections On The Work Of John English, SJ
Hospitality -- The Spirituality Of The Diocesan Priest
 

I


Ignatian Contemplation  see Gospel Contemplation above
Ignatian Terminology
Images Of God Affect How We Relate To Prayer And Life
Imaginative Prayer
Indifference  (the opposite of Ignatian indifference)
Insiders And Outsiders
Interior Awareness
In The Land Of Darkness

J


Jacqueline Fehlner
Jesuit -- Topics Of Interest
Jesus -- see Who Is Jesus For You? --- The Message Of Jesus
              and Presenting Jesus of Nazareth -- by José I. González Faus
 

K


Kingdom Exercise And The Use Of Myth In Spiritual Direction

L


Lectio Divina
                    also see Many Paths To Prayer
                    also see Accepting  The  Embrace Of God
                    also see Lectio Divina as a Group Exercise
Leisure A Good Form Of Penance
See also Enjoyment As An Expression Of Worship
Letter of St. Ignatius To One About To Make The Annotation [19] Exercises
Letter of St. Ignatius To One About To Make The Annotation [20] Exercises
Litany Of Saints For Canadians
Litany Of Humility
Litany Of Jesuit Saints
Loving God With All Our Hearts  -- Poem
 

M

Mark S. Muldoon
Marginalization see Insiders And Outsiders
                           and Presenting Jesus of Nazareth -- by José I. González Faus
Meditation
Meditative Prayer see Lectio Divina and Pondering The Scriptures With Your Heart
Merton, Aquinas and Contemplation
Message Of Jesus by Juan Mateos
Mitchell,  Jean
Moutenot, SJ, Charles L.
Muldoon, Marc S.
My Experience of the Spiritual Exercises ... Where We're Headed
Myth see Kingdom Exercise And The Use Of Myth In Spiritual Direction

N

Nativity Scenes (shows how the past becomes present through the imagination)

O

Olga Warnke, IBVM ,
See Enjoyment As An Expression Of Worship
and Mary's Song
Ourselves We Cannot Save
Oppression And Empowerment see Insiders And Outsiders
Orientations, Volume 1: A Collection Of Helps For Meditation And Prayer Orientations, Volume 2: Part A and Part B
                       -- For Those Who Accompany Others On The Inward Journey

P

Pastoral Counseling Resources
Penance
Performing Arts And Priesthood
Personal Decision-Making In A Faith Mode
Personal Relationship With God And Prayer see God Relates To Us Personally
                                                          (and see Prayer And Psychological Growth )
Personal Prayer
Planning Prayer Patterns  for development of this topic see Conversion Cycle
Pondering The Scriptures With Your Heart
Postures During Prayer -- A Brief Explanation
Postures During Prayer -- A Fuller Explanation
Prayer Exercises From The Spiritual Exercises
Prayer And Psychological Growth
Prayer Methods
                         also see Dictionary Of Terms About Prayer
Prayer Using Imagination  see also Gospel Contemplation above
Prayers For Midlife And Beyond
Prayer On Ignatius' First Principle And Foundation
Praying With Scripture
Presenting Jesus of Nazareth -- by José I. González Faus

Preparation For The Spiritual Exercises
Price Of Indifference -- African Wisdom
Priesthood And Performing Arts
Principle And Foundation see also --  Singing And Dancing With The Musicale Of Creation
                                                         --  At The Beginning Of The Day
                                                         -- Contemporary Version by John Reilly, sj
Profit, James
Psychology Versus Spirituality (also consult Prayer And Psychological Growth)
Purchase of Books  see Books Of Spiritual Guidance

Q

R

Relational Psychotherapy And Spiritual Direction
Remembering God's Presence In My History  see also  Blessed History
Report On An Ecological Retreat
Repetition
Review
Roemer, Judith -- Recent Directory For The Spiritual Exercises
Rules For Discerning Spirits for literal text of Mullen click here
Rules For Discerning Spirits  for a commentary see Guidelines For Discerning Spirits
Richard Shields, Ph.D.,

S

Schemel, S.J., George J. -- Recent Directory For The Spiritual Exercises
Second Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
Sin consult Shame -- The Present Shame Of Sin
                                                  also consult Sin and Reconciliation
                                                  also consult First Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
Shame -- The Present Shame Of Sin  by Marc S. Muldoon
Shields, Ph.D., Richard
Singing And Dancing With The Musicale Of Creation -- by John English, SJ
Solitude --
Staying Quietly In God's Presence -- by José Matthews

Spontaneous Art Therapy Bridges Spiritual Direction And Relational Psychotherapy
Spiritual Direction -- an explanation of its process
Spiritual Direction Resources  also confer Part B chapters from Orientations, Volume 2 especially:
                                        see  Early Stages In Ongoing Spiritual Direction 
                                        see also Silent Friend ...  -- by Ignatius Feaver O.F.M. Cap.
Spiritual And Psychological Horizons In Spiritual Guidance
Spiritual Exercises In Daily Life  (an explanation of their method, purpose and goal)
Spiritual Exercises -- Some Key Prayer Exercises

Suffering -- Our Human Situation
Spiritual Freedom: from an experience of the Ignatian Exercises to the art of spiritual 
                                direction,  (Revised and Updated) by J.J. English
Spiritual Intimacy And Community: An Ignatian View Of The Small Faith Community
                                by J.J. English  
Standards For Ministry Of The Spiritual Exercises
Symbolic Rapport To Public Rhetoric .... In The Catholic Church  by Muldoon and Veltri
 
 

T

Talking WITH God -- A Brief Explanation
Talking WITH God -- A Fuller Explanation
Technical Terms In The Spiritual Exercises
Theology Of Suffering
Three Classes Three Degrees Third Week Of The Spiritual Exercises
Thirty-Days Spiritual Exercises In Solitude
To You ... From Ignatius
Two Standards Exercise

Twenty-Four Spiritual Exercises For The New Story Of Universal Communion

U

V


Veltri, John
Vocal Prayers see Prayers For Midlife And Beyond  and  Special Prayers

W


Warnke, IBVM , Olga See Enjoyment As An Expression Of Worship
                                       and Mary's Song
Week, meaning of in the Spiritual Exercises
Week -- Day -- Exercise In The Literal Text Of The Exercises
Week Of Directed Prayer In A Church Setting

What Are The Spiritual Exercises Of St. Ignatius All About?
With/Before The Holy One
Worldview consult Sin and Reconciliation
Written Meditation On A Personal Experience
Written Meditation On  A Scripture Passage
 
 

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