The Spiritual Exercises: The Complete Text

Ignatius wrote plainly, in the barest outline, because the words were meant to be prayed.

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About this edition

The Spiritual Exercises are the retreat Saint Ignatius of Loyola drew from his own conversion, and the foundation of Ignatian prayer. Composed in the years after Manresa and offered to God for His greater glory, they lead the soul through four weeks of meditation and contemplation: sorrow for sin; the following of Christ from Bethlehem toward Jerusalem and the choice of a way of life; the watch through the Passion; and the joy of the Resurrection, rising at last to the Contemplation to Attain Love.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition presents the complete text, the Annotations, the four Weeks, the Three Methods of Prayer, the Mysteries of the Life of Christ, and the Rules for the Discernment of Spirits and for Thinking with the Church, in the translation Father Elder Mullan made from the Saint's own Spanish manuscript and published in 1914. Newly set in Crimson Pro and Cinzel, on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Details

• Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus
• Translated by Father Elder Mullan, S.J., 1914, from the Spanish autograph
• The complete text, with the Rules for the Discernment of Spirits
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 114 pages, cream paper

Cover: The Lamentation, oil on canvas by Scipione Pulzone, Il Gaetano (Italian, ca. 1544–1598). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Terence Cardinal Cooke, 1984. Public domain.