This blog is intended for all those who are embarking on an Ignatian Retreat in Everyday Life. There is increasing interest in the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, the Basque saint who founded the Society of Jesus and who left the Church and the world an amazing legacy in prayer and discernment as to how God calls all men and women to follow Christ more clearly, more dearly and more nearly.
St Ignatius devised a set of meditations called Exercises which can be prayed and mediated over in daily life over 30 weeks or so in everyday life. With a competent guide one can pray each day in the course of these weeks with Scripture and with the help of time devoted to personal reflection, one can come to discern more clearly one's vocation and how to come to freer decision making.
Would you like to know more?
I will be posting on this blog some introductory ideas and concepts to help you make the first steps of this retreat which lasts from October to May.
May God bless you on this journey -it has the potential to be the greatest and most important adventure of your life!
Let us pray for one another.
Fr John McCarthy
Cobh
County Cork
Ireland
jfpmccobh@gmail.com
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