The Retreat That Never Ends: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

This 5-day preached retreat will provide space for people of all backgrounds to experience Ignatian Spirituality. We will begin to explore the Spiritual Exercises through a series of daily presentations, along with opportunities for reflection and prayer. This compilation of meditations, prayers, and contemplative practices were developed by St. Ignatius Loyola to help us deepen our relationship with God. The Spiritual Exercises grew out of Ignatius’s personal experience, as someone seeking to grow in union with God and discern God’s Will. The retreat is divided into four parts. The first part will offer a time of reflection on our lives in light of God’s boundless love for us and a call to follow him. The meditations and prayers of the second part will teach us how to follow Christ, as his disciples. During the third part, we will meditate on Christ’s Last Supper, Passion, and death as the ultimate expression of God’s love. In the fourth part, we will meditate on Jesus’ resurrection and his encounters with his disciples. As we walk with the risen Christ, we set out as pilgrims on the road to love and serve him in concrete ways in our lives in the world, through an integration of contemplation in action, prayer and service, guided by our emotions and reason.