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    The Spiritual Exercises (Latin: Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by...
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  • Spiritual exercises may refer to: Any spiritual practice dedicated towards increasing one's personal spiritual capacity Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius...
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  • A spiritual practice or spiritual discipline (often including spiritual exercises) is the regular or full-time performance of actions and activities undertaken...
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  • The main idea of this form of spirituality comes from Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises, the aim of which is to help one "conquer oneself and to regulate...
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  • Rudolf Steiner developed exercises aimed at cultivating new cognitive faculties he believed would be appropriate to contemporary individual and cultural...
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    Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), in his Spiritual Exercises. Ignatius was later to be made patron saint of spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922. Many...
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  • aids to others seeking to enter into spiritual experience. He suggested that a combination of spiritual exercises (for example, concentrating on an object...
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    paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the Spiritual Exercises (1548). In time, the method has...
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    bring about this conversion is the Ignatian retreat, called the Spiritual Exercises. During a four-week period of silence, individuals undergo a series...
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    century. In the mid-sixteenth century Ignatius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises, which he used with laypersons, taught methods of both meditating...
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    next decade. These were: teaching discernment through use of the Spiritual Exercises, walking with the poor in their quest for dignity and justice, accompany...
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    guiding bishops, priests, nobles, and common people alike in the Spiritual Exercises. As a lone Jesuit often on the move, Faber never felt alone because...
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    Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who incorporated it into his Spiritual Exercises in the early sixteenth century, it goes back to monastic profession...
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    through spiritual combat and asceticism. Origen stresses the importance of combining intellect and virtue (theoria and praxis) in our spiritual exercises, drawing...
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  • religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant...
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    central practice in Thelema, involving various physical, mental, and spiritual exercises aimed at uncovering one's True Will and enacting change in alignment...
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    affiliated with any other religious group. The movement teaches simple spiritual exercises, such as singing "HU ", called "a love song to God", to experience...
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    memoirs, and philosophical essays, such as The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises. His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations...
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  • Christ. Modern use of the word is often traced to St. Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises or retreat, where he would have the exercitant ask: "What have I...
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  • exercises or spiritual disciplines such as lectio divina are given to the directee as sustenance to further their spiritual growth. The Spiritual Exercises...
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    founder of the Jesuits, contain numerous meditative exercises. To this day, the Spiritual Exercises remain an integral part of the Novitiate training period...
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    Louis Barbo. His book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i.e. "exercises for the spiritual life" was published at Montserrat in 1500 and was an important...
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    who assisted him in formulating and extending his knowledge of spiritual exercises. Toward the end of his life, Hadot felt that Epicureanism and Stoicism...
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    studies the history and Constitutions of the Jesuits, he makes the Spiritual Exercises and participates in experimentism, most often by serving in ministries...
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    the practices of spiritual exercises as influencing those of reflective practice. Many parallels between Stoic spiritual exercises and modern cognitive...
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  • God (Greek and Latin: Ασκητική. Salvatores dei) is a series of "spiritual exercises" written by Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis. It was first written...
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    canonical hours, manual labor, and classes about the religious life. Spiritual exercises and tests of humility are common features of a novitiate. A superior...
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    spirituality and spiritual exercises for personal individual growth. She also offered personal Skype sessions with clients who paid her for spiritual counseling...
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  • self-reflection and presence in the moment are presented along with simple exercises for the achievement of its principles. Published in the late 1990s, the...
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  • that would normally be considered inconsequential to the spiritual life, can be spiritually meritorious if it is performed in order to give glory to God...
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