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| Retreat in the Everyday Life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The following pages present a framework for a self-guided retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The retreat will consist of about 30 Steps divided in four Phases. Each Step is built up so that with the help of the given material you can do one or more sessions consisting of prayer, meditation, reflection and sharing if more than one person does the retreat together. Whatever from this material is more significant for you, stay with it as long as you feel, do repetitions if you wish so to get the more fruit that is possible out of each Step. Before beginning with the First Step you need to get familiar with the method of the "Daily Examination of Consciousness" that you can find on our site at http://www.geocities.com/ourladyofthegraces/examination.html. The practice of Examination will be a great help that you need to use during this retreat. We encourage couples to do this retreat together acting also as guides for each other helping to recognize the direction these Steps are helping to go through the emerging feelings, insights of each and their common decisions. Simple directions regarding what to do will be given along the way. Our plan is to place here one Step every two weeks you can follow this schedule. When the whole program will be on this page you can take one step daily, weekly or biweekly according the circumstances. We encourage to experiment with the retreat to see how it works better for you, from the time of the sessions to the place where you do your reflections or sharing. Besides the convenient time and place you will need a Bible and a notebook for recording your experiences. And of course the desire to go through these Steps. You can contact us with questions or comment or you can join our "Prayer and Dialog Group" to meet eventually with others doing similar retreats. For a more extensive reading go to this page We wish you a fruitful experience and pray for you who undertake this adventure. |
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| First Phase: Reforming* "To reform the deformed" or the liberative way |
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| Step 1: Listening | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 2: Our Human Vocation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 3: The Principle of Freedom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 4: Existential Experience of the History of Salvation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 5: Our Personal History of Salvation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 6: Hell and Mercy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| * We call for the four Phases Reforming, Conforming, Confirming and Transforming, names introduced for the Exercises Process in Bernard Tyrrell, S.J., Christotherapy II, (Eugene:Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1999), (in further references "Christotherapy II"). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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