IDE • Leadership - “Capacity to influence and • Conscience – Identify what is right and

inspire, become catalysts of change in any wrong, chooses the right thing no matter
M1 LESSON 1: THE FOUNDER’S LIFE AND organization a person is in" how inconvenient it is (heart)
MISSION • An XU graduate always stands by the truth
2033 and justice and knows and feels for the
The Vision Statement of XU • Year 2033, what and where will you be situation and the needs of the poor and the
▪ To be a leading (1) ASEAN University by then? marginalized. Good person.
forming (2) leaders of Character in 2033 • XU desires that at the end of 2033 which is • Commitment – a person who is able to
exactly 100 years after its founding, concretely manifest love and compassion
ASEAN Xavier Ateneo hopes that it will already through concrete deeds of goodness (hand)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nation achieved what it desires to become a • An XU Graduate is someone who is able to
• Xavier Ateneo desires to become one of leading Asean university use his or her expertise, empowered by
the leading academic institutions among the compassion, and goodness, and thereby
Asean nations THE MISSION STATEMENT commit to making this world a better place
• Scope = Asean (not Asia, not only within 1ST PARAGRAPH by becoming leaders and developing
Mindanao & Philippines) Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan is a communities and people
• XU wants to become a leading school from Filipino, Catholic, Jesuit educational community • 3C’s
Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, dedicated to the integral development of the
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, person for the needs of Mindanao, the THE NEEDS OF MINDANAO, THE
and Brunei Darussalam. Philippines and Asia-Pacific. PHILIPPINES, AND ASIA-PACIFIC
• It is a huge dream since the other Asean • Your XU/Ateneo Education will answer to
nations are very good in their schools. E.g. FILIPINO, CATHOLIC, JESUIT the “Real” development needs of
Singapore’s National University of • Acknowledgment that XU is a university Mindanao, Philippines, & Asia Pacific
Singapore – one of the consistent top that is: • Men and Women for others, we live and
universities in the world. And this is the (1) UNIVERSITY we exist not for our own selves but also for
hopes and dreams of XU to become at par (2) FILIPINO others most especially the poor and the
with these universities (3) CATHOLIC marginalized
(4) JESUIT
LEADERS OF CHARACTER 2ND PARAGRAPH
• Leader = influence, inspire & prime movers INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT As a University, Xavier engages in the authentic
of “good” change& development • Integral/Holistic development of a person search for the truth through teaching, formation,
• XU desires to produce not only experts but • Competence – XU desires to produce research, and social outreach; it is dedicated to
also leaders in their own workplace, graduates who are capable and experts in the renewal, discovery, safeguarding and
business, and communities their own field (brain) communication of knowledge and human
 values; and it trains men and women to think → All XU faculty members are
rigorously, so as to act rightly and serve required to do researches to be 4TH PARAGRAPH
humanity justly. more effective in teaching, selected As a Catholic University, Xavier is committed to
students are encouraged to do the proclamation of the joy of the Gospel; its
TRUTH research too commitment is rooted in a deep personal
1. Truth = knowledge or wisdom hence, → The Kinaadman Research Center friendship with Jesus Christ manifested by
“Veritas Liberabis Vos”/ The Truth Shall Set (KRC) loyalty to the Church characterized by
You Free 4. Social Outreach preferential option for the poor; it shares in the
• Taken from the Gospel of John → Engagement in the community privileged task of fostering the interdisciplinary
• Motto of XU through outreach and social and integrated encounter between faith,
• Knowledge, truth, wisdom or education development activities reason, and the sciences
“THINK RIGOROUSLY, SO AS TO ACT
TEACHING, FORMATION, RESEARCH, AND RIGHTLY AND SERVE HUMANITY JUSTLY.”
SOCIAL OUTREACH “DEEP PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP WITH JESUS
• Think Rigorously – Critical Thinking
CHRIST”
• Emphasis on the following “strengths” of XU → Act rightly &serve justly: action that
(the 4 pillars) • Personal friendship w/ Christ = you know
are “reflected upon" and not out
1. Teaching Christ personally and you may encounter
of whim
Him everyday
→ Academic formation with
knowledgeable teachers who are 3RD PARAGRAPH • Retreats/Recollection
experts in the classroom and also in As a Filipino University, Xavier is devoted to
the field; CHED/PAASCU approved the (11) appreciation, preservation and PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR
academic programs enrichment of the Filipino culture and heritage; • We choose the poor always, we have
→ Expertise and capabilities of to the sustainable development of the nation; conscious bias of the poor
teachers and effectiveness of and to the pursuit of the common good. • Example: Tabang Visayas
program
→ Academic Excellence “APPRECIATION, PRESERVATION AND 5TH PARAGPAPH
2. Formation ENRICHMENT OF THE FILIPINO CULTURE As a Jesuit University, Xavier participates in the
AND HERITAGE” (16) Jesuit mission of reconciliation with God,
→ Spiritual, psychological, cultural
• XU is proud of its Filipino heritage and with others and with creation; it seeks to serve
formation, student involvements
challenges students “to be Filipino” (speak, the faith; promote justice, dialogue with culture
(organizations and clubs) and
dress, sing, dance, eat, etc.) and religions, and protect the environment; it
student welfare
• “Museo de Oro” is a museum dedicated to upholds the (17) Ignatian values of magis, cura
3. Research
Filipino Culture and heritage and most personalis, and finding God-in-all-things
specifically of Mindanao
“JESUIT MISSION OF RECONCILIATION WITH INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
GOD, WITH OTHERS AND WITH CREATION; • Integral/Holistic development of a human
IT SEEKS TO SERVE THE FAITH, PROMOTE person
JUSTICE, DIALOGUE WITH CULTURE AND • Competence, Conscience and Commitment
RELIGIONS, AND PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT”
• We take part on the Philippine Jesuits’
Mission of reconciliation with:
→ God
✓ Through service of the faith, promote
justice
→ Others
✓ Through dialogue with different
cultures and religions M2 LESSON 2: CHARACTERISTICS OF JESUIT
→ Creation EDUCATION
✓ Through protection of the environment 1. Jesuit education: is world-affirming. assists
in the total formation of each individual
IT UPHOLDS THE IGNATIAN VALUES OF within the human community. includes a
MAGIS, CURA PERSONALIS, AND FINDING religious dimension that permeates the
GOD-IN-ALL-THINGS entire education. is an apostolic instrument.
• Ignatian Values = from the spirituality of promotes dialogue between faith and
St. Ignatius of Loyola culture.
• As students and graduates of XU, we know 2. Jesuit education: insists on individual care
and practice the Ignatian values where and concern for each person. emphasizes
ever we will be activity on the part of the student.
encourages life-long openness to growth.
6TH PARAGRAPH 3. Jesuit education: is value-oriented.
In sum, Xavier University forms men and women encourages a realistic knowledge, love,
of COMPETENCE, CONSCIENCE, AND and acceptance of self. provides a realistic
COMMITMENT in the service of the Church the knowledge of the world in which we live.
global community, and the Filipino people 4. Jesuit education: proposes Christ as the
model of human life. provides adequate
pastoral care. Celebrates faith in personal
 and community prayer, worship and LESSON 3: ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, find out that the others are not there they
service. THE PILGRIM must complain and ask the Lord for them to
5. Jesuit education: is preparation for active be together
life commitment. serves the faith that does
justice. seeks to form “men and women for • 1st – we can learn so many things from
others”. manifests a particular concern for them
the poor. • 2nd – they can inspire us to become better
6. Jesuit education: is an apostolic instrument, individuals like them
in service of the church as it serves human • 3rd – the lives of these three people will
society. prepares students for active serve as a background of Ignatian
participation in the church and the local spirituality
community, for the service of others
ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
7. Jesuit education: pursues excellence in its BIRTH
work of formation. witnesses to excellence. FRIENDS OF THE LORD
→ St. Ignatius of Loyola • Ignatius was born in 1491, he was much
8. Jesuit education: stresses lay-Jesuit older than the other two who were born in
collaboration. relies on a spirit of → St. Francis Xavier
1506 Ignatius was 15 years older than
community among: teaching staff and → St. Peter Faber Francis and Peter
administrators; the Jesuit community; → These three real individuals who made • St. Ignatius of Loyola was born in Basque
governing boards; parents; students; huge difference not only in the Catholic
• Basque Distinct Traits:
former students; benefactors. takes place Church but in the world
→ Reflective Spirit, Great
within a structure that promotes community. • The friendship shared by Ignatius, Francis
Concentration, Soft Spoken,
9. Jesuit education: adapts means and and Peter – that enabled them to do great
Courteous, Unshakeable firmness of
methods in order to achieve its purposes deeds for the world it is because of their will (stubborn), brave, militaristic
most effectively. is a “system” of schools friendship that empowered them to found (soldiers)
with a common vision and common goals. the Society of Jesus
• Basque is basically a region on in northern
assists in providing the professional training • A part of Xavier’s letter Santo Ignatius
Spain where people have distinct traits
and ongoing formation that is needed, while Savior was in Asia doing his mission
perhaps different from Barcelona or
especially for teachers. Madrid, Spain
• Basque Distinct Traits:
→ Reflective Spirit, Great
Concentration, Soft Spoken,
Courteous, Unshakeable firmness of
• The letter reflects that very deep and will (stubborn), brave, militaristic
personal friendship between the three (soldiers)
people that if one would die first and then
• Basque people are people with very firm • The tower is named Casa Torre de Oñaz y ST FRANCIS XAVIER
or people with unshakable willpower Loyola, the very house where Ignatius • Exabierr (New House) St. Francis Xavier
• They are also brave people that is part of grew up played and perhaps fell in love Castle
their personality then later on, on this very same house this • Plaza del Santo, 31411, Javier
• Historians and sociologists would comment will become the place for healing after his • was also Basque so they share the same
that it has something to do with their history cannonball experience and most personality
• The Basque people's charge during and importantly it will become a place where • Francis was born in Navara located also in
even before the time of Ignatius would he will finally meet God the northern part of Spain
always be to guard the borders from the • He was born in a wealthy powerful and
invading French LOBO Y OLLA
influential family
• • The main door of the Casa Torre is a very
France always wanted to make some part
familiar symbol Lobo Y Olla, a Spanish • Francis grew up the castle is called
of Spain as part of the kingdom before so Exabierr meaning new house, the castle
the major occupation of the Basque people term for wolf and pot
used to be bigger and taller but something
most specially the men during the time of • Lobo Y Olla became contracted to the happened to it
Ignatius is to be in a military or to become name Loyola basically that is where the
Loyola clan took their name Lobo Y Olla • Xavier’s family was also very religious the
a soldier castle was well supplied with priests to
• The location the birthplace of Ignatius will Loyola
serve the spiritual needs of the family
define him as a person and then later on • A wolf was usually a symbol for nobility in
as a Saint the Basque region and the whole design ST PETER FABER
represented the generosity of the house
• St. Peter Faber has this character being
CASA TORRE DE OÑAZ Y LOYOLA • The tradition was that the Loyola family humble and last known
• Ignatius was born to a family who was not provided for its followers so handsomely
that even the wolves found something in the • He grew up in the mountainous region of
necessarily rich but nonetheless powerful Savoy, France
and influential kettle to feast on when the soldiers had
finished • If Ignatius grew up in a family of brave
• He was the youngest child of a family of and proud family, Francis grew up in
13 children wealthy powerful influential family, Peter
SANCTUARY
• His mother died when he was very young Faber grew up in a poor family of farmers
• Situated in the Urola Valley, the sanctuary
• His father died when he was growing up as is built around the tower house of the in Savoy
a boy Loyola Family • Personally, this poverty experienced by
• He was cared for by his own brother and • Two events make Loyola a center for Peter Faber will help shape him to become
his sister-in-law pilgrimage: the birth of Inigo de Loyola in St. Peter Faber
• Jesuit what historians would say that as a 1491 and his conversion in 1521
child “Iñigo”, grew up a bit neglected and YOUNG LIFE OF ST IGNATIUS
• Basilica De San Ignacio De Loyola
even rejected • At 16 years old Inigo became an adopted
son of Juan Velasquez de Cuéllar (Royal
 Treasurer of the City of Arevalo) – he's a • This experience of being defeated will the girls he cannot do this with a crushed
close relative of the family form Francis as a person who is ambitious and a wounded leg
• Since Juan was the royal treasurer of the and wanting to have power later on • In his process of healing of boredom after
city of Arevalo Inigo was exposed to reading the two seemingly boring books he
wealth power and influence so growing up YOUNG LIFE OF ST. PETER FABER found the desire to search for God and
he became popular in court, he was a • Peter grew up very poor he had no formal they started his journey as a pilgrim
lively trained young man, he was very fond education in his journal later on he wrote searching for God
of court dresses and good living he was this in my sadness of not being able to • THE SUSCIPE OF IGNATIUS
very vain, he became addicted to the study I wept myself to sleep every night → Visited the Monastery of our Lady of
popular romantic novels and influenced by • however, he was gifted with an ability only Monserrat
traditional courtly love and nightly very few people possessed → Offered his sword on the altar – Total
bravado, • extraordinary memory or photographic Surrender to the will of God
• He became a hopeless romantic, first he memory this ability helped him become → After his recuperation from two major
got involved with women, drank a lot, he studious and intelligent and with the help of surgery without anesthesia Inigo decided
was addicted to gambling, he loves to the generosity of the priests in their area to leave home, he found himself in the
argue with people he was a hothead and he was sent to school and eventually to the monastery of Our Lady of Montserrat
even engaged swords play University of Paris where he met Ignatius located in the Catalonia province there
• St. Ignatius was the only Catholic saint with and Francis Ignatius made a gesture of total
documented police record due to nighttime surrender to God in a whole night vigil in
rolling, you can see that police record in a EARLY ADULT LIFE – 1522 front of Our Lady of Montserrat he
museum located in Rome • At 30 years old Ignatius was already a offered his sword and put on a poor
captain of soldiers defending a certain man's clothing a manifestation of living
YOUNG LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER town called Pamplona the old life and living a new one in full
• Navara lost its independence it was taken • Brave Ignatius knew already that he would accordance to the will of God
away by the order of King Ferdinand and not win against the French invaders → Surrender would always be one of the
Queen Isabella, it was a punishment for however he rallied his forces not for a hallmark of Ignatian spirituality, you
aiding their king who was exiled to France victory but for the glory of Spain cannot be with God fully unless you fully
the King wanted to take back the kingdom • Debris from an explosion brought about by and totally I surrendered to him, the
and brought the French army to Navara a cannonball crushed his leg and seriously picture on the left side is the icon of of
but they were defeated as a further wounded the other the statue of Our Lady of Montserrat
punishment Cardinal Ximénez de Cisneros where Ignatius offered his sword on the
ordered the destruction of Exabierr • This cannonball experience of Ignatius
would forever change his life in a sense right side is the monastery itself now
• After this his father died of a broken heart, that it will become the death of his courtly preserved and maintained after Ignatius
his brothers were imprisoned and the dreams, he dream of becoming influential, became Saint on the center is a painting
family fell out of grace, wealth, power and and powerful in the future he was vain he of Ignatius standing in front of the icon
influence wanted to look nice always and impress
 insignificant he is in the world he is still • Francis as a wounded young man his family
loved by God this overwhelming feeling defeated by his enemies he became very
of being consoled empowered Ignatius to ambitious, he wanted to become a priest
reflect on a very different way of influenced by a very religious family but
approaching and meeting God, (3) not just any ordinary priest a dream of
Ignatius reflected on the idea of finding- becoming big in the Catholic Church
God-in-all-things which will become the perhaps his way of making up to the
very core of his very unique spirituality difficulties they have experienced as a
• THE CAVE OF MANRESA family he wanted to be well known
→ Spiritual Desolation IGNATIUS -1523 (32 y.o.) influential and powerful, an archbishop a
→ Spiritual Consolation • Jerusalem – his ultimate mission (so he cardinal, or becoming the next pope
→ Spirituality: “Finding-God-in-all-things” though during that time) • Peter Faber but on the other hand was a
→ Draft of the Spiritual Exercises (SpEx) • Left in fear of excommunication humble perhaps a bit insecure but very
→ The cave of Manresa it is now encased • Death of a new dream and finding a intelligent young man like Francis he also
by a church, the cave itself where dream and purpose wanted to become priests, influenced by
Ignatius spent 11 months in solitude • Ignatius then decided to take a very his benefactors who sent him to Paris
trying to figure out the will of God for dangerous travel to the Holy Land or
him Jerusalem for Ignatius this was his ultimate IGNATIUS – 1528 (37 y.o)
dream to spread the word of God and • From Barcelona, transferred to University
work for the conversions of the Muslims to of Paris for his studies of Philosophy and
Christianity Theology (the new dream to become a
• He was ordered to leave Jerusalem since priest)
Christians and Muslims are at war during • Three years after when Francis and Peter
this time he insisted on staying, but then he are finishing their education 37 years old
→ The Cave of Manresa is very significant was threatened with excommunication so Inigo were now calls himself Ignatius
because of four things (1) it is where he he left Jerusalem and came back to • Started his own education in the very same
spent his great desolation in his deep Barcelona University
prayer he realized that he is a great
sinner and that he cannot take his own EARLY ADULT LIFE OF FRANCIS AND PETER 1582
sinfulness he thought that he cannot be – 1525 (19 y.o) • He also became roommates with Francis
worthy of God's love and so because of
• Two years after two young men started and Peter in the University of Paris,
this he resorted to extreme fasting and
their education at the very prestigious College of St. Bare
punished himself physically even to the University of Paris
point of wanting to hurl himself off a cliff, IGNATIUS and PETER - 1528
(2) the great consolation of Ignatius • Francis Xavier and Peter Faber started to
finally Ignatius began to realize that no study philosophy and theology and they • Are roommates Peter helped the older
matter how sinful he is no matter how were roommates Ignatius in his Greek studies which was a
 very difficult subject in the university during mortal soul?” Jesuit tradition would tell us • The religious Colloquy was the emperor's
that time that this is a turning point of Francis and way of uniting the Catholics and the
• Remember Peter was intelligent and ahead the start of their friendship Protestants, this is during the Protestant
of Ignatius in terms of studies so he had to Reformation, where a lot of people
tutor Ignatius protested against the Catholic Church for
• Peter on the other hand became very FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS being corrupt
curious of the person of Ignatius and most • Peter found himself in a place of hatred
specially on the very unique spirituality that August 15, 1534 and division as a way of helping in the
Ignatius was following so he let Ignatius • Francis gave in to the promptings of situation
became his spiritual advisor Ignatius and with Peter and four other • Peter Faber gave the Spiritual Exercises to
friends - Simon Rodriguez, Diego Laynez, many people in Germany regardless of the
IGNATIUS and FRANCIS - 1528 Nicolas Bobadilla, and Alfonso Salmeron - are Catholics or Protestants
• The friendship between Ignatius and joined Ignatius in going through with the • In his letter he said to Ignatius that there
Francis was a different story at least how it Spiritual Exercises was enough work in Ratisbon for 10 more
started • Years after, the seven companions headed Jesuits asking Ignatius to send more men to
• They differ in terms of family background by Ignatius decided to become priests give the spiritual exercises to people in
history they both knew that they differ in together, together as friends in the Lord Germany
terms of their loyalty to King Ferdinand they profess the vows of (1) poverty, (2) • In the midst of disputes confusion hurt
and Queen Isabella remember the family chastity and (3) going to the Holy Land hatred and division Peter Faber was given
of Ignatius was very loyal to the Monarchs • Unfortunately going to the Holy Land was the Spiritual Exercises because of this Peter
while Francis and his family hated them out of the question, there was no ship to Faber would be called the Master of
• Aside from that Francis who is well-dressed take them because of the impending war Spiritual Exercises, though Ignatius crafted
and popular in school thought of the between Jerusalem and Venice and the the Spiritual Exercises, it was Peter Faber
infamous Ignatius as a weird one who is Pope did not give them permission to travel who propagated it throughout Europe
always dressed in ragged clothing and • Instead, they decided to help the poor of
bags in the street for alms and give it to Rome in whatever way they can and SEPTEMBER 27, 1540
the poor and the beggars presented themselves to the Pope and • by 1540 the small group of friends
• Most significantly Ignatius would keep on serve the church through works and missions attracted more men even the influential
challenging Francis to forget his worldly ones through the encouragement of people
dreams and become poor for God which is PETER – October 1539 and officials the group finally decided to
for Francis - is a total nonsense he was • Propagation of the Spiritual Exercises become a holy order of priests and
ambitious after all so he cannot really • In October 1539, the intelligent Peter brothers
agree with Ignatius Faber was assigned to help in the Religious • In September 27, 1540 Pope Paul III
• Then one day Ignatius posed this question Colloquy of Emperor Charles V of Rome at approved the order and called it
to Francis “What does it profit a man if he Worms and Ratisbon, Germany SOCIETAS IESU
gains the whole world and yet loses his
• This time the Jesuits professed new vows the East travelling from Goa India to PETER – JULY 17-AUGUST 1, 1546
the vows of poverty, chastity and Malacca now part of Malaysia to the • By August 1, 1546 in the presence of
obedience to the Superior General, their Moluccas now part of Indonesia, going Ignatius of Loyola, Peter Faber died due to
leader with special obedience to the Pope back to Malacca and India then traveled sickness and exhaustion
• Ever since the time of Ignatius, Jesuits to Japan and then finally going back to
always worked closely with the Pope India JANUARY 1, 1548
• In his 10 years of mission historians dubbed • January 1, 1548 it is only this time when
IGNATIUS APRIL 22, 1541 him the greatest Christian missionary after Peter Faber have died already and
• Ignatius was also voted as the “Reluctant” Saint Paul historians accounted 30,000 plus Francis Xavier was already in Asia that
first Superior General of the Society of Christian converts by Francis Xavier he was Pope Paul the third finally approved the
Jesus basically responsible for propagating Spiritual Exercises as one of the important
• He neglected this idea of leading the Christian faith in Asia church documents a manual of instructions
society many times he accepted it after the • While in his last stop in India he prepared on how to lead people on a very difficult
group insisted that he will become their for a very dangerous and forbidden 30 day silent retreat
leader journey to China hoping to convert the
kingdom to Christianity and then hoping FRANCIS – DECEMBER 3, 1552
IGNATIUS AND FRANCIS - 1541 that the rest of Asia will follow and he • December 3 1552 Francis Xavier died due
• Sus! Heme Aquí (Well then, here I am) became more ambitious now as a to high fever in a small island Shangchuan
missionary however this planned mission Island, China, very near the mainland
• By 1541 Ignatius needed to send someone will not come into our realization
to India for a mission Nicholas Bobadilla, China where he hoped to be secretly
one of the first seven companions was smuggled
PETER - 1546 • It took years for Ignatius to receive the
supposed to go but he got sick, so Ignatius
turned to his friend Francis and said well • Council of Trent news that his friend have already died
master Francis I think this is your enterprise • Assigned as Papal Theologians for the
which Francis readily answered well then Ecumenical Council of Trent THE SAINT’S BODY
Here I am • In 1546 after the collapse of the religious • the remains of Francis Xavier is now
• Ignatius sent his friend to a dangerous Colloquy in Germany, Peter faber was located in the Basilica of Bom Jesus (Goa,
journey to Asia knowing full well of the assigned as one of the people theologians India)
huge possibility of not seeing each other in the Council of Trent • Francis Xavier is one of the very few
again • However because of his long travels on Catholics Saints whose remains are
foot Peter became sickly and so before considered incorruptible a process wherein
FRANCIS – 1542-1552 attending the Council of Trent he decided the remains of a human body have
• The Tireless Missionary of the East to visit Ignatius in Rome undergone little or no decomposition or
• By 1542 a year and a couple of months delayed decomposition
later Francis Xavier reach Goa and started • India though not fully Catholic considers
his mission he was a tireless missionary of Francis Xavier as a national hero after all
 the good things he did for the poor of missionary of the East and patron saint of → Spiritual Exercises – changed for the
India missions better the lives of countless of people
even until today
IGNATIUS – JULY 31, 1556 SEPTEMBER 5, 1872 → The Society of Jesus – Ignatius also
• Four years after due to deteriorating • the humble Peter Faber had to wait, 326 founded the Society of Jesus who are not
health and problems in his stomach Ignatius years after for the Catholic Church to only priests but scientists,
joined his friends in July 31, 1556 beatify him and acknowledge his good environmentalists, engineers, teachers,
deeds during the Protestant Reformation philosophers, theologians, artists, poets,
DECEMBER 3, 1609 through the Spiritual Exercises of St. musicians, these Jesuits have changed the
• 53 years after his death Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola world even until today remember without
was beatified by the Catholic Church • The needed to wait even longer for him to the Jesuits and Ignatius there would be
beatification is basically a process of become a saint no Xavier Ateneo
becoming blessed or holy of the Catholic • The Missionary (St Francis Xavier)
Church it is also a pathway to becoming a DECEMBER 17 2013 → The propagation of Christian Faith in Asia
Catholic saint • Canonization of St. Peter Faber (467 years – Saint Francis Xavier was responsible for
after death) making Christ known to countless of
OCTOBER 25, 1619 • Pope Francis proclaimed him as St. Peter people in Asia his deeds of goodness of
• 67 years after his death, Francis Xavier Faber finally a Catholic saint 467 years the poor of Asia goes beyond religion
was also beatified by the Catholic Church after his death and faiths
• The younger Jesuit once asked another → Xavier University a teenage was named
MARCH 12, 1622 Jesuit why do you think Peter Faber waited after Saint Francis Xavier, that is another
• In 1622 the Catholic Church canonized so long to become a saint the older legacy of this missionary of the East
both Ignatius and Francis together on the judgement just answered well he is like that • The Master of SpEx (St. Peter Faber)
same day he doesn't want to be a at par with → The propagation of the Spiritual
• Canonization of St. Ignatius of Loyola (66 Ignatius or Francis always humble even in Exercises – though Ignatius was the one
years after) his death who crafted the Spiritual Exercises it was
• Canonization of St Francis Xavier (70 years St. Peter Faber who propagated it in
after) LEGACIES Germany during Protestant Reformation
• Inigo, the vain wild child and stubborn kid • The Visionary (St. Ignatius of Loyola) during the great divide between the
from northern Spain became st. Ignatius of → Ignatian Spirituality – St. Ignatius of Catholics and the Protestants Peter gave
Loyola the great founder of the Society of Loyola created a very unique spirituality the Spiritual Exercises the countless of
Jesus and the author of his Spiritual a very different way of approaching people regardless of religion historians
Exercises God that God is everywhere and in would even argue that without Ignatius’
• Francis, the ambitious and wounded child everything thereby making God more Spiritual Exercises and Peter Faber
became Saint Francis Xavier the great approachable and relatable giving them to countless of people in
Germany, the division of the Catholics
 and the Protestants could have gone for become better and to go beyond our 3. Jerusalem, The Holy Land
the worst limitations • A dream come true
→ The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius • A dream that ended and
drafted inside the cave of Manresa IGNATIUS • Finding a new dream
indeed change the lives of a lot of • Wrote 7,000 + letters in his lifetime • Moment:
people (Artifact, Rooms of St. Ignatius, House of
Gesu, Rome) → Opportunity to do something that is
greater than his original plan (higher call)
• Ignatius’ Sandals 4. Paris, France
What can we learn from the lives of • Ignatius’ Death Mask
Ignatius, Francis and Peter? • Magis (Excellence)
• “in the afterlife, I don’t worry about God • The importance of education/knowledge in
• The first one would always be some judging me, it is Ignatius that worries me”
friendship do last a lifetime and even serving God, “I can help more souls if I am
Fr. James Martin, SJ credible and knowledgeable.”
beyond so if you have good friends now
even if you don't get along sometimes, they 5 DEFINING MOMENTS OF ST. IGNATIUS OF • “Friendship in the Lord”
can make you become a better person LOYOLA • Coming together of friends with the same
• Second, Ignatius Francis and Peter were passion (of course gathered by Ignatius)
ordinary people, Ignatius was vain like us 1. Cannonball at Pamplona • Moment:
proud like us a man of the world like us • A life shattering experience → Friendship and brotherhood
wounded both physically and spiritually • The death of his courtly dreams 5. Rome, Ignatius Ultimate Mission
like us, Francis was ambitious wanting • The actual founding of the Society of Jesus
power and influence and even self- • A physical and psychological Disaster
• Moment: (Jesuits)
centered like us Peter was poor and • Establishment of identity of the Society of
insecure like us but these individuals rose → A life-changing experience, involving
physical, emotional and even spiritual Jesus & Ignatius’ ultimate mission “to help
up and have gone beyond their limitations save souls”
and even their own darkness and left a trauma
2. Manresa • Mission:
huge mark in the world
• Spiritual desolation and spiritual → Sense of mission
• We are ordinary people like them we
have our own darkness sinfulness and consultation
• The unknown vision “finding God in all M2 LESSON 1: IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY
limitations but certainly we can be like
them in our own little way I am talking things”
about becoming better sons and daughters • A (very rough) draft of the Spiritual • Ignatian Spirituality is concrete
and brothers and sisters, I am talking about Exercises (SpEx) that will change the lives • It is a way of living our relationship with
becoming a better friend, I am talking of a lot of people God
about becoming a better citizens, of the • Moment: • Its practical, not vague, a way of life
Philippines and take part in nation-building → Moment of being LOVED (despite of rather than simply a way of thinking or
I am talking about becoming a better everything) believing
person in this world for me that's Magis to
• Ignatian Spirituality gets its name from • Ignatius has his look upon the earth, so • We can do with by joining ourselves to the
Ignatius Loyola, a 16th century Aristocrat many people hateful, killing, so many sick work God is doing to save and heal the
and a one time soldier who helped and dying, so many struggling with life and world
breakdown the walls between the wholly blind to any meaning
part of life and everything else we do • Ignatius imagines the divine persons of the GOOD DECISIONS
• It has to do with a unique and dynamic Trinity surveying our broken wolrd and • Our task is to get free from what Ignatius
understanding of God, God’s world, and saying ‘let us work for the redemption of called Disordered Affections
ourselves the whole human race’, ‘let us respond to • These are the things we think we must have
the groaning of all creation’, in order to be happy – money, power, a
GOD • Jesus comes to the world to bring salvation, place on honor on society, glamorous
• Ignatius sees God as an infinitely loving, healing, peace, abundant life, joy and friends, and personal independence
generous giver of gifts unity
• “God’s love shines down upon me like the IGNATIAN DISCERNMENTS
light rays from the sun. God’s love is IGNATIUS’ VISION • Helps us to sort through our attachments
poured forth lavishly like a fountain spilling • Christ declared “it is my will to win over the and to choose what will truly give us joy
forth its waters into an unending stream” – whole world, to overcome evil with good, • He shows us how to attend to our feelings
SE #237 to turn hatred aside with love, to conquer and to those deep desires which God puts
all the forces of death.” – SE #95 in our hearts
GOD IS PERSONAL • The world needs people of imagination, • We get in tune with God’s mission and
• God deals directly with each of us and vision and commitment, to undo the understand our part in it
gives each of us a unique set of talents, damage caused by greed and hatred, we • A gradual process
relationships and task to accomplish now become the focus of the Lord’s gaze • We gradually realize that God’s plan is so
• These gifts are an expression of God’s • It is to us when Christ is talking when He much better than our own
personal love says “whoever wishes to join me in this • We respond generously, we love and
• They call us to make a personal loving mission must be willing to labor with me, serve in all things
response and so by following me and struggling and
suffering, may share with me in glory.” Or CONTEMPLATIVE IN ACTION
GOD IS ACTIVE Christ is calling us to serve
• Regular practice of Ignatian Prayer helps
• God is working in our world • We are to engage in helping many souls us become contemplatives in action
• God became human in the person of Jesus • Pedro Arrupe “Men and Women for • Are people who are grounded in a quiet,
of Nazareth and this thus deeply and others” tranquil place deep inside
permanently involved in our lives • The activity flows from the deep center
• Ignatian spirituality says “if you’re looking WHAT DO I DO WITH MY LIFE?
for God, just look around you” • The aim is to know, love and serve God IGNATIAN PRAYER
• God passionately loves the world but the
world is broken
• Ignatius view of God is that He is A great be different from how you look at God, • Fr. James Martin of the Society of Jesus
giver of gifts how I developed this personal relationship • Every spirituality offers you a distinctive
• The Ignatian prayer is grounded in a and this image of God may be different passage to God
profound sense of gratitude from yours • An affirmation of how we defined
• A thankful appreciation on the concrete • One can be spiritual and not religious and spirituality, spirituality like bridges are of
blessings of the day one can be religious without being spiritual different types they have their own
• Give thanks to God for favors received. advantages and disadvantages and
AN ANALOGY ON SPIRITUALITY: bridges are built based on the given
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY • The Jesuits: Their Spiritual Doctrine and terrain or topography of the area they can
• Spirituality of the heart Practice (1964) by Father Joseph de be simple or cheap or grand and
Gilbert of the Society of Jesus expensive
• Discovering what we truly desire
• Gratitude • It can be anything but the ultimate purpose
“Spirituality is like a “bridge”. Every bridge of bridges is that it provides us a passage
• Falling in love does pretty much the same thing - gets you to us to a sense of purpose to a destination
from one place to the other, sometimes over or God
ON SPIRITUALITY perilous ground, or a river, or great heights.
What is the difference between spirituality and • Our ultimate goal is to be with God
But they do so in different ways. They might be forever
religion? built of rope, wood, bricks, stone or steel; as
arches, cantilevers, or suspension bridges. KINDS OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
RELIGION Hence there will be a series of different types, MONASTIC SPIRITUALITY
• is simply a specific set of organized belief with each one having its advantages and
and this is usually shared within a disadvantages. Each type is adaptable to • “Away from the world”
community or groups given terrains and contours and not to others; • Believes in being away from the world
• customs traditions and even culture yet each one in its own way achieves the • They usually go to the mountains and live in
• communal there are a lot of religions in the common purpose - to provide a passage by a convent so they are not allowed to see or
world they vary they are different but means of an organic balanced combination of talk to anyone most of the time they don't
what makes them the same is that context materials and shapes.” go out from the convent since their purpose
of community you share this religion with → the author gives us an idea that spirituality is to pray for the whole world and for the
other people connects us and provides us a means to a souls of people
SPIRITUALITY destination, that without this means or • Ex: Pink Sisters Religious Congregation
• is the individual practice connection we would not be able to reach
our destination or purpose CONVENTIONAL SPIRITUALITY
• sense of purpose and something that is
beyond or bigger than you – God • Dichotomized Lifestyle, “away and with the
EVERY SPIRITUALITY OFFERS YOU A world”
• Personal
DISTINCTIVE “PASSAGE” TO GOD • Ex: The Benedictines
• My way of relating with God may be
• The Jesuit Guide to (almost) everything • Dichotomized kind of lifestyle or spirituality
different from you, my image of God may
the monks in the medicines
 → Jesuits professes a vow of poverty that is leaving the cave of Manresa Ignatius also
ACTIVE SPIRITUALITY part of the three vows that they profess. held in his hand the rough draft of the
• “in and with the world” Actually great philosophers and spiritual exercises which will then change
• Ex: The Society of Jesus theologians these are areas of the lives of so many people
• Total opposite on the Monastic kind of life concentration that is part of the Jesuit
training so they are impeccable INSIDE THE CAVE OF MANRESA
• Jesuits, the perfect example like Ignatius,
they spent most of their lives in the busy philosophers and theologians they are • Ignatius had to grapple with his own
cities of the world, they don't leave the expected to be one sinfulness, he cannot really reconcile being
world and go to the mountains to pray called by Christ to be so much in love with
PRACTICAL him
• Jesuits thrive in their spirituality by being
active in the world • is defined as of or concerned with actual • He is also a great sinner so in his frustration
doing or use of something rather than and desolation he wanted to hurl himself
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY theory of or ideas off a cliff because he cannot accept it
• Father James Martin in his book included a • in other words, Jesuits go beyond your • What saved him however is one single
joke about the Jesuits recent ideas and their main concern is how thought and that this thought “no matter
to concretely manifest theories and ideas who and what he is he is still loved by
• Jesuits take their cue from Ignatius in terms into action God”
of a practical spirituality one joke has a
Franciscan, a Dominican and a Jesuit • Jesuits can be anything and anyone they • And that God started loving him even
celebrating mass together when the lights thrive as teachers, academics, scientists, before he was conceived
suddenly go out in the church. The doctors, managers, engineers, missionaries,
Franciscan praises the chance to live more lawyers or anything under the sun as long A SPIRITUALITY OF THE HEART
simply. The Dominican gives a learned as it is legal and morally upright • Love is the core or heart of Ignatian
homily on how God brings light to the spirituality
world. The Jesuit goes to the basement to IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY • The Jesuits after the time of Ignatius have
fix the fuses IGNATIUS INSIDE THE CAVE OF MANRESA been calling this spirituality as the
→ Though the Franciscan, Dominicans, and • Ignatius inside the dark and cold cave of spirituality of the heart
Jesuits they share the same active kind of Manresa remember if the cannonball • Since the act of loving is very true to the
spirituality they basically differ so much in experience of Ignatius was a defining lived experiences of Ignatius
identity and character moment for him
→ Franciscan priest praised simplicity because • His experience inside the cave if his THREE MAIN POINTS OF IGNATIAN
that is who they are they embrace life of Pamplona moment was very difficult for SPIRITUALITY
simplicity and even poverty him in a sense that it altered his life • God
direction • Self
→ Dominican priest gave a learned homily
because they are known to be great • Manresa movement, it defined who he is • Others
philosophers and theologians as a person a future saint, and his unique
spirituality that we are now studying and
 GOD → Being able to communicate and relate with POINT A
• For Ignatius and his spirituality all must God our whole person is the greatest → For Ignatius God does not only limit himself
begin with God manifestation of intimacy letting another within the four corners of the heaven and
• Based from his experience of knowing and person know who you are fully without fear spent his time just looking down at the
eventually developing an intimate of bias or prejudice or judgment is intimacy world he created, God is in the world and
relationship with God in itself his presence is very active and part of this
• We remember the experience of Ignatius → For Ignatius this invitation to be in a deep world
inside the cave of Manresa particularly personal and intimate relationship, is an → God never left this world and abandoned
that one reality that saved him that he is invitation given to us every day it after seventh day of creation
loved → God continues his work of shaping and
POINT B reshaping this world and his work of saving
1. GOD IS A VERY LOVING GOD → God also concretely manifests his love for this world continues and He will never
 This God certainly knows how to concretely us through gifts leave this world to its doom basically
manifest his love for his people → All the things in this world are gifts from because he loves this world in a very
 As a very loving God he relates to us in a God presented to us so that we can know passionate way
very personal and intimate level God more easily and make a return of → For Ignatius how God concretely and
love more readily ultimately manifested his love for this world
POINT A → All material things in this world, skills and and his people is by sending us His son the
→ God does not deal with us as a community abilities, relationships we built, our dreams, God who became man Jesus Christ
or as a group of people or the whole and desires are all gifts from God
human race or collectively but relates to us → All things that are not necessarily good (sin) POINT B
as individuals as persons that happened in my life made us a better → The spirituality of “Finding-God-in-all-
→ God knows us fully from our hopes and our person, learn from mistake which we will things”
dreams fears, and frustrations, our then learn to love more and deeply → Finding God in all things can be considered
giftedness and limitations our goodness → The word commitment and acceptance as the general idea or structure of
and our sinfulness our happiness and → Be thankful for even in this very difficult Ignatius’s spirituality
brokenness time because God is the giver of gifts → In Ignatius’s time it was like promulgated
→ When you go through the spiritual by the Catholic Church that if you want to
exercises the 30-day silent retreat, one 2. IS VERY ACTIVE & “PRESENT" IN OUR meet God you have to go to the church
huge encouragement from Ignatius in his WORLD and pray
manual is to come as you are, there is no  God passionately loves this world → By doing so this notion basically limits God
need to conceal or hide a bit or a part of  The spirituality of “Finding-God-in-all- and his presence to his people and then
yourself from God, basically because there things” here comes Ignatius saying that no God is
is no point in doing that God knows you  The Awareness Examen present in everything and everyone and in
fully all times and all places
→ God goes beyond time and space after all
→ A very unique spirituality in a sense that it • In psychology unconditional love is a state • He is considered as the great missionary of
makes God more available and of mind in which one has the goal to the east, second only to the Great Saint
approachable to people continue or increase care and welfare of Paul
→ A lot of young men followed Ignatius and another despite any evidence of benefits • Peter Faber was aloof and insecure but he
they have gone through the spiritual • In his journals Ignatius wrote that when he is also responsible of propagating the
exercises: Saints Francis Xavier and Peter walks alone and remember his own spiritual exercises of Ignatius in Europe
Faber sinfulness he would expect that the earth most especially in Germany during a very
→ Unfortunately this also led Ignatius to a lot itself would swallow him whole because of difficult time of the protestant reformation,
of troubles with the church authorities his sinfulness in effect Peter Faber’s gentle gentleness
basically because he happened to present • in numerous times most especially during and openness of heart helped in healing a
this spirituality in Spain and in France the last years of his life, Ignatius came to divisive society
during the holy inquisition love looking at the stars at night at the top • Ignatius himself was a womanizer, a
→ this spirituality of Ignatius makes us feel of the Jesuits headquarters in Rome his drunkard, a hot head, someone is very
that we are not alone in this world and in assistance in a lot of occasions observed selfish well he is Saint Ignatius of Loyola
this life and that after everything is done him to fall down to his knees and cry very • All of us will always have this potential to
and there is someone we can go back to silent tears after looking at the stars for do good in a society wherein doing good
quite some time depends on what we can achieve in return
SELF • Ignatius later on shared that when he looks
1. SENSE OF IDENTITY at the stars he is reminded of the beauty POINT C
 You are loved! and the vastness of the universe and also • Ignatius believes that we are all called to
 You are someone with much potential his own insignificance compared to what he partner with God in his work of salvation to
to do good had seen in the night sky and yet despite save souls, which was the very first mission
 You are called to work with God – all of these he is still loved by God of the Society of Jesus
“TO SAVE SOULS” • An experience of being loved is another • Society of Jesus will never be a spirituality
POINT A human need being loved will empower us and will not go to the mountains to pray
• For Ignatius these are his visions and to love others in return • for him the mission is with the people to
images help them and empower them and in the
• The first Ignatian spirituality can provide us POINT B process save their souls
a much deeper sense of identity • For Ignatius, a person would always have • early Jesuits work in hospitals they founded
• The question of who I am is a vital question the potential to do good in the world orphanages, established schools and
for a person to answer sense of identity is • Francis Xavier was arrogant he was colleges and even worked with monarchies
a basic human need according to ambitious and desiring power but he is also around Europe so that they can advise
psychology responsible for spreading Christianity in them on what to do with the poor
• For Ignatius, experience that you are loved India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan • The mission of the early Jesuit is to save
by God and that you are loved souls evolved after so many years um
unconditionally
• Father Pedro Arrupe of the society of Jesus 3. GRATITUDE → And for Ignatius it is a very simple question
in 1973 he was the former superior a  All are gifts in this life to answer and yet very difficult to do
successor of Ignatius coined this term the  “We give thanks to God for the gifts however empowered by the gratitude and
“person for others” we receive everyday” – St. Ignatius love we received we are we are now
→ sense of gratitude compelled to love others through service
2. SENSE OF PURPOSE → Ignatius strongly believe that everything is → The early Jesuits, they serve the poor and
 Ultimate Goal: to be with God forever grace the needy, they always have this particular
 What do you truly desire? → everything is out of the abundance of the bias for the poor and they choose the poor
 The challenge to make good life → goodness of God he gives us everything always
decisions that we have right now true they work with monarchs and rich
 A discerning person → Ignatius acknowledges this in his journals
people but their bias is always for the
• For Ignatius his spirituality can offer us a benefit of the poor
and that it is good to give thanks to God
sense of purpose is another human need for all the gifts we received every day → PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR
for us to have a healthy self-image, we
→ When we become critical and very → XU would always choose the poor and XU
must be able to answer this difficult would always provide venues for the
reflective of all the details of our everyday
question as we are growing up students to practice
life that we can remember we cannot help
• as far as Ignatian spirituality is concerned but feel thankful because some things that → WHY THE POOR?
our ultimate goal is basically stated in the we have exist and they are present in our → Ignatius was very much in love with Christ
first principle and foundation life he even wanted to stay and spend the rest
• to be with God forever so for us to be → Sometimes because they can be so of his life in Jerusalem where Christ lived
able to lead ourselves to this ultimate goal ordinary and so every day that we fail to died and resurrected
one must answer another difficult question see them and acknowledge them as grace → The religious order he founded was not
• “what do you truly desire in life” or gifts even named after him unlike other religious
• Ignatian spirituality would always → Awareness Examen will help us to be congregations but it was named after Jesus
challenge us to make good decisions in life thankful for what we have and what we Christ, the society of Jesus
one that does not only benefit the self but are and focus on them more than what we → This is basically an identity of the company
other people as well so that in the process don't have and what we are not of Ignatius to be like Christ, to spend his
we will be able to achieve our ultimate time with the sinners, tax collectors, the
goal which is to be with God forever OTHERS fishermen the sick and the marginalized
• For us to be able to go through this very  “How can you concretely manifest love for
tedious process of identifying our deep God?” M2 LESSON 2: THE EXAMEN AND THE FIRST
desires Ignatius encourages us to become a  Love others through service PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
discerning person someone who is able to  Preferential option for the poor
identify the best course of action out of the → He asked a question which he also • Ignatius designed the exercises for
many good options available answered the question was “How can you ordinary Christians, he was a layman when
concretely manifest love for god?” he developed the exercises and he
 intended them for those seriously seeking a • He compared His exercises to an intense 2ND WEEK
deeper relationship with God physical workout • Focuses on Christ’s mission to save and heal
• One of the classic books of Ignatian → They require a significant commitment the world
Spirituality of time • We reflect on scripture passages, Christ
• Invitations of Christ and Augustine → They engages at every level, intellect, birth and baptism, His sermon on the mount,
confessions and emotions, memory and will His ministry of healing and teaching, His
• A book that changed the world but not an → To benefit from them, Ignatius said Raising Lazarus from the dead
inspiring spiritual reading people should enter them with great • We don’t simply learn more about Jesus,
• Collection of notes, instructions, reflections, spirit and generosity we fall evermore deeply in love with Him
prayers, and observations • The book of exercises opens with 20 as the first disciples did
• It is nice to read the spiritual exercises but preliminary notes that carry an important • This makes it easier to respond with great
it is better to make them, only then they message, the exercises must be adapted to generosity and ask “How can I join Christ in
can be transformative the needs of the person making them His work?”
• A practical guide to help people come to a • The retreat is an encounter with God it is
greater union with God by finding what an experience on personal relationship that 3RD WEEK
God desires for them is unique to each one of us • We contemplate the last supper and Jesus
• Some ideas and prayer methods were • The exercises are not just program but an Christ suffering
especially effective in fostering and encounter with the living God who loves us • We remember the gift of the Eucharist and
experience of deep conversion experience Jesus’ passion and death as the
• He eventually developed His retreat and 4 SECTIONS ultimate expression of God’s love for each
assemble His book of spiritual exercises as • Which Ignatius calls “weeks” of us
a manual for directors • Phases in the deepening relationship with
• You play your part by engaging various Christ 4TH WEEK
exercises and following the promptings of • Bring us to the joy of Jesus’s resurrection
the holy spirit in your heart 1ST WEEK and His appearances to His disciples
• The exercises bring us into an intimate • Has to do with God’s boundless love for us • We walk with Christ in resurrected world
encounter with God as revealed in Jesus and our flawed response to it • We pray for generous heart to find-God-
Christ • A response that tampered by sin in-all-things and to work with Him in
• Their purpose is to enable us to make good • We pray for the Grace to see ourselves as concrete ways as our lives unfold
decisions and as Ignatius puts it, to help beloved sinners • Ignatius believed that love is better
others • We end the 1st week with 3 questions expressed in deeds rather than in words
• The exercises emphasize attaining interior 1. What have I done for Christ?
freedom, so we can respond evermore 2. What am I doing for Christ? 2 KINDS OF PRAYER
generously to God’s call 3. What ought I do for Christ? 1. Meditation
→ Use our intellect to seek insights into
the ideas of Christian Revelation
 → We ponder who God is and who we
are before Him → People usually make the exercises with the Step 3: Review the day noticing your
2. Contemplation assistance of a guide who is trained to help feelings
→ We use our imagination to place the retreatant discern the movements of the Step 4 Choose one feature of the day
ourselves in the same from the spirit and pray from it
Gospels or a setting proposed by → The guide is the companion in the journey Step 5: Look forward to tomorrow with
Ignatius whose task is to serve, love, and pray for hope
• Meditation and Contemplation have the the retreatant
power to win over our heart, minds, and → The guides role is important, but the crucial • The key element the most important part
senses in a generous response to God’s relationship is between the individual and should always be there which is the review
love God of the day
→ God speaks directly to us • identifying the presence of God in your life
DISCERNMENT → Has work for us that only we can do MAIN POINTS OF IGNATIAN EXAMEN
• We pay close attention to our feelings, → The dynamic of the exercises is the • Rooted from Ignatius’ “finding-God-in-
desires, and emotions as they arise conversation all-things”
• We ask where they come from and where → Ignatius constantly urges us to talk with the → God can be found in holy places like
they are leading us Lord our churches and other holy grounds
• Ignatius believed that our deepest desires → Sharing the important things that shaped → However God is also very much
always lead us to God their lives present in our everyday lives no matter
• The exercises engage our feelings as well how ordinary and simple they can be
as our reasoning, and aim for whole- FORMS OF SPIRITUAL EXERCISES → God is very much present in nature and
hearted passionate response to Christ’s 1. Long retreat the environment if you will spend much
invitation to know Him more deeply → Last within 30 days time outdoors and you will get used to
→ Made in solitude and silence it then you will surely appreciate the
2. Retreat in daily life beauty and serenity of nature in the
SOUND DISCERNMENT silence and peace it can provide if we
→ Daily Prayer and weekly meetings with
• Especially helpful to people as turning spiritual directors
commune with nature but most
points in their lives importantly our environment provides
→ Over 9 or 10 months us of the needed resources like water
• But even people whose major life 3. Short retreats (4-8 days)
commitments are settled, find great benefit minerals food or produce shelter and
→ Offered at many retreat houses other materials for me our nature
• The inside the exercises provide into good
decision making reflects the generosity of God it gives
IGNATIAN EXAMEN so much and yet as humans we often
• The exercises are oriented towards action, Step 1: Become aware of God’s fail in taking care of it
they help people become free to choose presence
the life they truly desire because its also → God can speak through the faces of
Step 2: Review the day with Gratitude different people they have different
what God desires
 concerns and hopes and dreams god is God's way of saying he or she is not • How Ignatius looks as himself in accordance to
present when we work so hard and the one God's love and in connection to other people
earn the fruits of our labor and yet → God is present in family friends and even the material things
there are times when we fall short of students and even classmates someone
what is expected to us we may so who knows you very well even your The goal of our life is to live with God forever.
come to delaying our study or review dark sides and yet it is okay and you God, who loves us, gave us life. Our own
of our subjects or doing our are accepted response of love allows God’s life to flow into
assignments at the last minute and most → God is also present in the faces of the us without limit.
of the time it costs our grades poor when you meet them on the
sometimes we try our best but it streets perhaps it is God's way of All the things in this world are gift of God,
seemed our best is not good enough saying what can you do to help them presented to us so that we can know God more
how can be god present in our failures or would you help me in helping them easily and make a return of love more readily.
→ Perhaps our failures may be a way of • To become more aware of God’s
God telling us to become better or to presence in your life…by becoming more As a result, we appreciate and use all these
work harder next time aware of yourself gifts of God insofar as they help us develop as
→ God is present when we are so much in → In the 2nd step: you are asked of a loving person. But if any of these gifts become
love and inspired when you found a very important question “what are you the center of our lives, they displace God and
perfect and the right one loving thankful for today”, you cannot help so hinder our growth toward our goal.
someone is God's gift to us loving and but feel grateful that no matter how
caring for another makes us human, difficult life is there are still things that In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in
one of the things that makes man truly you can be grateful with balance before all these created gifts insofar
human is the ability to love and care as we have a choice and are not bound by
→ The examen helps us to see our faults some obligation. We should not fix our desires
for others and limitations and even our sinfulness
→ Yet there are times when we are left on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success
so because we see them clearly we can or failure, a long life or a short one. For
out alone and perhaps rejected this is resolve better and try harder in
a very real human experience to be everything has the potential of calling forth in
becoming a better person tomorrow us a deeper response to our life in God.
broken-hearted these are times when • Challenge: make it a habit!
the one who promised to love us
always change his or her mind these → if you give this way of praying a Our only desire and our one choice should be
are times when we expressed love and chance then you will be able to this: I want and I choose what better leads to
affection to other people and yet we understand better that indeed God the deepening of God’s life in me.
received a cold and hard nothing how can be found in everything
could God be present in our
brokenness THE FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
→ God's way of saying wait a little • The P&F can be considered as an introduction
longer or work harder in showing or and even a summary of the spiritual exercises
proving our love or perhaps this is of saint Ignatius
 → Out of these gifts we will be able to → we need to use whatever gifts god
know him better and easier and gave us in so far as they will lead us
therefore we will be able to love him closer to God
better and easier → All material things in this world are
gifts from God
WHY ARE WE HERE AND WHERE ARE WE → Nature, environment, natural resources,
GOING? (1st Paragraph) even technology are gifts from god all
We are created out of love and therefore people of whom we are related to like
we must love parents, siblings, relatives, friends and
→ If we were created in the image and people whom we are in relationship
likeness of God, and if God is love, with are also gifts from god
therefore, we are all created out of → Even honor prestige, success and
love and that is who we are that is our money can be used as a means for us
identity to know God and love him better
MAIN POINTS OF THE 1ST PRINCIPLE AND → And that is the reason why we are → Our cell phones and computers can
FOUNDATION here, we exist for us to become loving make our lives easier we can
The Existential Questions Ignatius tried to persons and loving human beings communicate better we can know things
answer through the P&F: → According to Ignatius, the only way for better and more
1. Who is God and who are we? us to achieve and keep that identity as  (THE WARNING OF IGNATIUS) If these
2. Why are we here and where are we loving beings is only if we participate created gifts will become the center of
going? in a reciprocal loving relationship with our lives, they will displace God and
3. How to get there and what are the God by loving others and everything therefore hinder us in our ultimate goal
means to take to get there? that He created → However our mobile phones and our
computers can also be a hindrance to
WHO IS GOD? (1st and 2nd Paragraph) Our ultimate Goal: TO LIVE WITH GOD creating real and deep relationship
 God created everything, ourselves FOREVER with people if we spend more time
included → Where are we going after all of this: with our cell phones and our computers
→ this is not only true to the catholic faith Ignatius pointed out that if we come then we miss out on the essentials that
but also in other faiths, God as the from God therefore, we are also real and deep relationship with people
ultimate creator journeying back to God to be in a relationship with someone is
a beautiful thing to love is who we are
 Our God is a loving God HOW TO GET THER AND WHAT ARE THE after all however if this relationship
 Everything that God created are gifts of MEANS TO TAKE TO GET THERE? (3rd will become the center of our lives then
God to us paragraph) we will miss out on the other essentials
→ Ignatius also acknowledges that our  Use and appreciate the gifts of God given of life like family and friends to have
God is a generous God to us an ambition is a good thing but what if
 that ambition will lead us to use other THE 5TH PARAPGRAH
people as means to get what we want Summary:
then we lose the point “our only desire and our one choice should
→ To become rich is not a sin living a be this: I want ot choose what better leads to
comfortable life is preferable over the deepening of God’s life in me.”
being poor however if being rich → the last paragraph serves as the
means that you will become greedy closing statement of Ignatius so
and selfish then we have forgotten therefore in everything that we do and
God then we lost our ultimate goal to every day
be with him forever → We must always choose those that will
 (SUGGESTION OF IGNATIUS) To strike lead us closer to God
the balance!
→ For us to be able to focus and achieve • The most difficult thing is not really how
our ultimate goal Ignatius gave us a to understand it but how we can apply
clear and strong suggestion, to find our it in our everyday lives
sense of balance in our use of all
created things
 DETACHMENT
→ If this particular thing will not help us in
our ultimate goal then we must set them
aside and choose those that are
essential in our lives
→ Ignatius call this process detachment to
become detached from our attachments
means that we can put aside the things
that are less important and choose the
essentials in life
→ detachment can be done through
process of reflection, discernment and
prayer
→ What are things in your life that is
making you unfree? What are things in
your life that you need to let go so that
you can live a happier and freer life?