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Description: Toward Greater Freedom: Resources for the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola

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Over 400 years ago, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, went through a profound series of experiences that changed his life forever.  In his own way, he let God move more freely in his life and explicitly shape his will, mind, heart, and actions.  Ignatius felt moved to share those experiences with others, so he kept good notes on what helped and how. Those notes became The Spiritual Exercise s, the heart of Ignatian spirituality, shared by Jesuits and lay persons the world over.

The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius can be successfully made at most any stage of a person’s life. They are exercises for the heart, designed to help Christians explore priorities, deepen relationship with God, and more readily follow God's will. St. Ignatius encouraged that the Spiritual Exercises be adapted to the needs of those who entered them. Toward Greater Freedom is an adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises developed and written by Fr. Anthony Borrow, S.J. while he taught at Jesuit College Prep in

Toward Greater Freedom through the Spiritual Exercises is in fact exercise. It is designed as a retreat to be made in your everyday life. As with all retreats, you are dealing with spiritual practice – your inner work – rather than with a study of theology or theory of spirituality. Hence, you, the pray-er, do the work of the Exercises with the support of those who’ve done it before you.

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