Chapter 11 -- Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises

Chapter 11

Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises

This chapter gives an overview of the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises and focuses on the Election and decision-making materials

For Chapter 11 --

it will be helpful to review
[101] to [164]
[165] to [168]
[169] to [189]
in the Spiritual Exercises.

Pray and Reflect:

The means enter into the end.
Discernment is getting my head, heart, faith and body together -- the quality of decision-making.
The good Christian conscience when faced with a dilemma will almost invariably choose the harder thing -- and almost invariably be wrong.
Mystery is infinitely intelligible.
One needs to incarnate one's consolation.
One always loses something in making a decision -- even when the decision is for the love of God.
God deeply respects our freedom.

Wonder and Discuss:

Repetition and application of the senses compose the person with the Mystery.
Many retreatants will be using the Election to "amend" their way of life rather than to choose a way of life.
Ignatius' method of choice is counter-cultural: choosing the end and then the means.
Talking with a director each day is an essential exercise in the retreat.
A good director directs the process but not the content for a retreatant.