A retreat every year
Spiritual Exercises
Following the method of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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A few days of silence to seek and find the will of God.
Every year, the sisters offer a retreat of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. In silence, prayer and meditation on the Gospel, each person is invited to look at their life before God, to receive his mercy and to put order into their choices, in order to follow Christ more closely.
Preaching the Exercises holds a special place in our Religious Family of the Incarnate Word: priests, sisters and lay people make them every year, all over the world.
What are the Spiritual Exercises?
By the term spiritual exercises is meant every way of examining one’s conscience, of meditating, of contemplating, of praying vocally and mentally, and other spiritual activities.
“For as strolling, walking and running are bodily exercises, so every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all disordered attachments, and, after their removal, to seek and find the will of God in the ordering of one’s life for the salvation of one’s soul, is called a spiritual exercise.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 1
What happens during the retreat?
- Silence, to let God speak to the heart.
- Preached meditations every day, following the path of the Exercises.
- Daily Mass and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
- Times of personal prayer in the chapel.
- Confession and the opportunity to talk with a priest or a sister.
The retreat is open to all who wish to take this time with God, whatever their path.
“Looking at myself, I will ask: what have I done for Christ, what am I doing for Christ, what ought I to do for Christ?”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 53
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Once a year
Take part in the next retreat
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