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Chapter
5
Prayer
During The Spiritual Exercises
This chapter looks at thematic prayer in the Spiritual Exercises. It discusses
presential prayer, id quod volo, application of senses, use of symbol,
active imagination, being composed with the Mystery, position in prayer,
the Three Methods of Prayer, and the Examination of Consciousness.
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Chapter 5 --
it will be helpful
to check the format for prayer in each Week of the Spiritual Exercises.
Note
also:
[1] to [20]
[238] to [260]
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Pray
and Reflect:
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Renew your
practice of the Examen.
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What will grace
look like when you have it?
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There is no
privileged moment in history.
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How my personal
symbols are challenged by the collective images and symbols of Scripture.
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Mystery is
what we know best.
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Faith is a
new epistemology
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Wonder
and Discuss:
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The Spiritual Exercises
require prayer that is focused and presential, thematic rather than
unthematic.
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As a director, I need
to know how to explain points of the Spiritual Exercises as well
as how to understand points.
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The examination of consciousness
is a most important tool for becoming aware of God's presence in my life.
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Interviewing a directee
is a skill, a grace, and an art. There I point this grace for this
retreatant at this time.
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A director needs to feel
comfortable dealing with the symbolic consciousness of a retreatant.
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The Spiritual Exercises
create
an atmosphere in which one "frees oneself from disordered affections and
attachments" so that one can order one's life with God.
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