The Spiritual Exercices of St. Ignatius of Loyola E-Book

St. Ignatius of Loyola

• Herausgeber: FV Éditions
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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Written in the 16th Century by the founder of the Jesuits, « The Spiritual Exercices of St. Ignatius of Loyola » is a real masterpiece and one of the best meditation books.

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The Spiritual Exercises

APPROBATION

PREFACE

GENERAL NOTE

PRAYER OF FATHER DIERTINS

ANNOTATIONS

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES TO CONQUER ONESELF AND REGULATE ONE'S LIFE WITHOUT DETERMINING ONESELF THROUGH  ANY TENDENCY THAT IS DISORDERED

FIRST WEEK

PARTICULAR AND DAILY EXAMEN

GENERAL EXAMEN OF CONSCIENCE TO PURIFY ONESELF AND TO MAKE ONE'S CONFESSION BETTER

GENERAL CONFESSION WITH COMMUNION

FIRST EXERCISE

SECOND EXERCISE

THIRD EXERCISE

FOURTH EXERCISE

FIFTH EXERCISE

SECOND WEEK

THE FIRST DAY AND FIRST CONTEMPLATION

THE SECOND CONTEMPLATION

THE THIRD CONTEMPLATION

THE FOURTH CONTEMPLATION

THE FIFTH CONTEMPLATION

THE SECOND DAY

THE THIRD DAY

PREAMBLE TO CONSIDER STATES

THE FOURTH DAY

THE SAME FOURTH DAY LET MEDITATION BE MADE ON

THE FIFTH DAY

THE SIXTH DAY

THE SEVENTH DAY

THE EIGHTH DAY

THE NINTH DAY

THE TENTH DAY

THE ELEVENTH DAY

THE TWELFTH DAY

PRELUDE FOR MAKING ELECTION

TO GET KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHAT MATTERS AN ELECTION OUGHT TO BE MADE ABOUT, AND IT CONTAINS FOUR POINTS AND ONE NOTE

THREE TIMES

TO AMEND AND REFORM ONE'S OWN LIFE

THIRD WEEK

SECOND DAY

RULES TO PUT ONESELF IN ORDER FOR THE FUTURE AS TO EATING

FOURTH WEEK

CONTEMPLATION TO GAIN LOVE

THREE METHODS OF PRAYER

SECOND METHOD OF PRAYER

THIRD METHOD OF PRAYER

THE MYSTERIES OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST OUR LORD

OF THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY TO ELIZABETH

OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST OUR LORD

OF THE SHEPHERDS

OF THE CIRCUMCISION

OF THE THREE MAGI KINGS

OF THE PURIFICATION OF OUR LADY AND PRESENTATION OF THE CHILD JESUS

OF THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT

OF HOW CHRIST OUR LORD RETURNED FROM EGYPT

OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST OUR LORD FROM TWELVE TO THIRTY YEARS

OF THE COMING OF CHRIST TO THE TEMPLE WHEN HE WAS OF THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS

OF HOW CHRIST WAS BAPTIZED

OF HOW CHRIST WAS TEMPTED

OF THE CALL OF THE APOSTLES

OF THE FIRST MIRACLE PERFORMED AT THE MARRIAGE OF CANA, GALILEE

OF HOW CHRIST CAST OUT OF THE TEMPLE THOSE WHO WERE SELLING

OF THE SERMON WHICH CHRIST MADE ON THE MOUNT

OF HOW CHRIST OUR LORD MADE THE TEMPEST OF THE SEA BE CALM

OF HOW CHRIST WALKED ON THE SEA

OF HOW THE APOSTLES WERE SENT TO PREACH

OF THE CONVERSION OF MAGDALEN

OF HOW CHRIST OUR LORD GAVE TO EAT FIVE THOUSAND MEN

OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST

OF THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS

OF THE SUPPER AT BETHANY

PALM SUNDAY

OF THE PREACHING IN THE TEMPLE

OF THE SUPPER

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE SUPPER TO THE GARDEN, INCLUSIVE

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE GARDEN TO THE HOUSE OF ANNAS, INCLUSIVE

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE HOUSE OF ANNAS TO THE HOUSE OF CAIPHAS, INCLUSIVE

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE HOUSE OF CAIPHAS TO THAT OF PILATE, INCLUSIVE

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE HOUSE OF PILATE TO THAT OF HEROD

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE HOUSE OF HEROD TO THAT OF PILATE

OF THE MYSTERIES DONE FROM THE HOUSE OF PILATE TO THE CROSS, INCLUSIVE

OF THE MYSTERIES ON THE CROSS

OF THE MYSTERIES FROM THE CROSS TO THE SEPULCHRE, INCLUSIVE

OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST OUR LORD OF HIS FIRST APPARITION

OF THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST OUR LORD

RULES FOR PERCEIVING AND KNOWING IN SOME MANNER THE DIFFERENT MOVEMENTS WHICH ARE CAUSED IN THE SOUL

RULES FOR THE SAME EFFECT WITH GREATER DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS

IN THE MINISTRY OF DISTRIBUTING ALMS THE FOLLOWING RULES SHOULD BE KEPT

THE FOLLOWING NOTES HELP TO PERCEIVE AND UNDERSTAND SCRUPLES AND PERSUASIONS OF OUR ENEMY

TO HAVE THE TRUE SENTIMENT WHICH WE OUGHT TO HAVE IN THE CHURCH MILITANT

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Copyright © 2016 - FV Éditions

Portrait on the cover : F. Zurbaran

Translated by Elder Mullan

ISBN 979-10-299-0311-3

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The Spiritual Exercisesof St. Ignatius of Loyola

- Founder of the Jesuits -

(1491 - 1556)

APPROBATIONOF THE LATIN TEXTS

The Exercises were offered for ecclesiastical censure at Rome. The text submitted was not, however, the one which is here reproduced, but two Latin translations, one in more polished Latin -- since called the Vulgate Version -- and one a literal rendering. The opinions expressed on these versions, as also the formal approval of Paul III, are given here, as applying quite entirely to the text from which the translations were made.

VULGATE VERSION

We have read everything compiled in the volume: it has greatly pleased us and seemed remarkably conducive to the salvation of souls. The Cardinal of Burgos

We grant leave to print the work; it is worthy of all praise and very profitable to the Christian profession. PHILIP, Vicar.

Such holy Exercises cannot but afford the greatest profit to any one who studies them. They should therefore be received with open arms. Fr. Aegidius Foscararius,Master of the Sacred PalaceWe have read these Spiritual Exercises, They greatly please us and we judge them worthy of being received and highly esteemed by all who practise the orthodox faith. The Cardinal of Burgos

We grant leave to print this work; it is worthy of all praise and very profitable to the Christian profession. PHILIP, Vicar.

As the Christian religion cannot long subsist without some spiritual exercises and meditations -- for the Psalmist says: In my meditation a fire flames out -- I think none more appropriate than these, which undoubtedly have had their source in the study of the Scriptures and in long experience. Fr. Aegidius Foscararius,Master of the Sacred Palace

PAUL III, POPE FOR A PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE

The cares of the pastoral charge of the whole flock of Christ entrusted to Us and Our devotion to the glory and praise of God impel Us to embrace what helps the salvation of souls and their spiritual profit, and cause Us to hearken to those who petition Us for what can foster and nourish piety in the faithful.

So Our beloved son, Francis de Borgia, Duke of Gandia, has lately brought it to Our notice that Our beloved son Ignatius de Loyola, General of the Society of Jesus, erected by Us in Our beloved City and confirmed by Our Apostolic authority, has compiled certain instructions, or Spiritual Exercises, drawn from Holy Writ and from experience in the spiritual life, and has reduced them to an order which is excellently adapted to move piously the souls of the faithful, and that they are very useful and wholesome for the spiritual consolation and profit of the same. This the said Duke Francis has come to know by report from many places and by clear evidence at Barcelona, Valencia and Gandia.

Hence he has humbly begged Us to cause the aforesaid instructions and Spiritual Exercises to be examined, so that their fruit may be more spread, and more of the faithful may be induced to use them with greater devotion. And he has begged Us, should We find them worthy, to approve and praise them and out of Our Apostolic goodness to make other provision in the premisses.

We, therefore, have caused these instructions and Exercises to be examined, and by the testimony of and report made to Us by Our beloved son John Cardinal Priest of the Title of St. Clement, Bishop of Burgos and Inquisitor, Our venerable Brother Philip, Bishop of Saluciae, and Our Vicar General in things spiritual at Rome, and Our beloved son Aegidius Foscararius, Master of Our Sacred Palace, have found that these Exercises are full of piety and holiness and that they are and will be extremely useful and salutary for the spiritual profit of the faithful.

We have, besides, as We should, due regard to the rich fruits which Ignatius and the aforesaid Society founded by him are constantly producing everywhere in the Church of God, and to the very great help which the said Exercises have proved in this.

Moved, then, by this petition, with the aforesaid authority, by these presents, and of Our certain knowledge, We approve, praise, and favor with the present writing the aforesaid instructions and Exercises and all and everything contained in them, and We earnestly exhort all and each of the faithful of both sexes everywhere to employ instructions and Exercises so pious and to be instructed by them.

[Here follow regulations for the diffusion of the book, and then confirmatory clauses.]

Given at St. Mark's in Rome under the seal of the Fisherman, 31 July, 1548, in the 14th year of Our Pontificate. Blo. El. Fulginen.

PREFACE

THE present translation of the Exercises of St. Ignatius has been made from the Spanish Autograph of St. Ignatius. The copy so designated is not indeed in the handwriting of the Saint, but has a good number of corrections made by him and is known to have been used by him in giving the Exercises.