The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Name: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Author: St. Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola, was a Spanish Basque priest who founded the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, and became its first Superior General. A former soldier, he was converted while recovering from a battle wound and learned prayer through solitude at Manresa. His Spiritual Exercises, the fruit of that time, remains a classic manual of retreats, discernment, and disciplined devotion.

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First published: 1548
Category: Devotional
Length: 31k words · about 2 hours
Chapters: 95

About this book

The classic manual of retreat meditation composed by Ignatius of Loyola and published in 1548. Through ordered exercises of prayer, self-examination, and meditation on the life of Christ, it guides the retreatant toward a free and deliberate choice of God's will. For nearly five centuries it has shaped Catholic spiritual direction and the practice of the guided retreat.

APPROBATION OF THE LATIN TEXTS
VULGATE VERSION
LITERAL VERSION
PAUL III, POPE FOR A PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE
PREFACE
GENERAL NOTE
PRAYER
Annotations 🔒
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES 🔒
PRESUPPOSITION 🔒
PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION 🔒
PARTICULAR AND DAILY EXAMEN 🔒
GENERAL EXAMEN OF CONSCIENCE 🔒
GENERAL CONFESSION WITH COMMUNION 🔒
FIRST EXERCISE 🔒
SECOND EXERCISE 🔒
THIRD EXERCISE 🔒
FOURTH EXERCISE 🔒
FIFTH EXERCISE 🔒
ADDITIONS 🔒
THE CALL OF THE TEMPORAL KING 🔒
THE FIRST DAY AND FIRST CONTEMPLATION 🔒
THE SECOND CONTEMPLATION 🔒
PREAMBLE TO CONSIDER STATES 🔒
THE FOURTH DAY 🔒
THE SAME FOURTH DAY LET MEDITATION BE MADE ON 🔒
PRELUDE FOR MAKING ELECTION 🔒
FIRST DAY 🔒
SECOND DAY 🔒
RULES TO PUT ONESELF IN ORDER FOR THE FUTURE 🔒
FOURTH WEEK 🔒
CONTEMPLATION TO GAIN LOVE 🔒
FIRST METHOD 🔒
I. The Ten Commandments 🔒
II. On Deadly Sins 🔒
III. On the Powers of the Soul 🔒
IV. On the Bodily Senses 🔒
SECOND METHOD OF PRAYER 🔒
THIRD METHOD OF PRAYER 🔒
OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LADY 🔒
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 🔒
OF HOW CHRIST WAS BAPTIZED 🔒
OF HOW CHRIST WAS TEMPTED 🔒
OF THE CALL OF THE APOSTLES 🔒
OF THE FIRST MIRACLE 🔒
OF HOW CHRIST CAST OUT OF THE TEMPLE 🔒
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 SECOND APPARITION 🔒
OF THE THIRD APPARITION 🔒
OF THE FOURTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE FIFTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE SIXTH APPARITION 🔒
THE SEVENTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE EIGHTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE TENTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE ELEVENTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE TWELFTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE THIRTEENTH APPARITION 🔒
OF THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST OUR LORD 🔒
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 NOTES HELP TO PERCEIVE AND UNDERSTAND SCRUPLES 🔒
TO HAVE THE TRUE SENTIMENT 🔒
GENERAL INDEX 🔒