Zanzig Chapter Eleven:Spirituality and Prayer:
Growing in Life with God
These are passages and idea you have been asked to think about this semester. You should not only know the content of each, you should have taken time to reflect upon these and try to apply their truths to your life here and now.
Prayer services you have heard these and we have gone over them in class.
- Fr. Sheridan's first homily at your Direction Days
- Fr. Cumming's "Finding God in all things"
- Mr. Garavaglia "Being a man for others is more than just being charitable."
- Mr. Linhares "magis"
- Fr. Harrison's prayer service "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies..." An historical illustration of the Pashcal Mystery.
These questions reflect major ideas of the first semester. You should be able to answer each well.
- What is Ignatius �First Principle and Foundation?�
- What are the Spiritual Exercises? What is its �basic premise?�
- What is the core of Jesuit training?
- What are the two �chief instruments of the Society�s mission in the Church?�
- Key Ignatian ideals: metanoia, seeing God in all things, magis, the real meaning of being a man for others, First Principle and Foundation.
The story of Elijah fleeing to Mt. Horeb (I Kings 19, 11-13)
How is �loneliness� an unavoidable, and positive, existential reality? Remember the story of Elijah on the mountain looking for God. How is �alone-ness� necessary for a good life?
Ruby Bridges
Dr. King's "Dark Night of the Soul."
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