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We offer here a way of possibly dividing the stages of the Ignatian Way, by making them correspond to the \u201cFour Weeks\u201d of the Exercises.\u00a0 Since the pilgrims will know their own personal processes and their time limitations, we leave them free to adapt our approach to their own particular needs.\u00a0 The Exercises normally begin with the First Week, so if someone wanted to make just one week of pilgrimage, it would be best to start with these meditation and not those of the later weeks.\u00a0 Each person will know best how to judge, but if you have any doubts, you will certainly be able to get advice from others who have experienced the Exercises in their own lives.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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First week of pilgrimage: Loyola \u2013 Logro\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n

We start off with a quotation of C\u00e1ndido de Dalmases SJ from the book\u00a0Place Me with your Son,\u00a0<\/em>(Georgetown Univ. Press, 1986):\u00a0\u00a0\u201cFrom the days of his convalescence in Loyola, Ignatius made a constant effort to put his life in order.\u00a0 He became aware that the first and most necessary thing was to know the end for which he was created.\u00a0 To him what was most important was that God\u2019s designs for him be accomplished.\u00a0 In order to do God\u2019s will, though, it was above all necessary to discover what that will was.\u00a0 The obstacle to that was to be found in the \u2018disordered affections\u2019 which obscure the eyes of the mind and drag the will toward evil.\u00a0 Ignatius saw that he had to struggle against these disordered affections, and to that end he would have to overcome himself.\u00a0 This would be the final end to which the Exercises would help a person, and the title of the book sums up its contents: SPIRITUAL EXERCISES TO OVERCOME ONESELF AND TO ORDER ONE\u2019S LIFE, WITHOUT REACHING A DECISION THROUGH SOME DISORDERED AFFECTION.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the first step for the pilgrim: feeling a great need to engage oneself in a dynamic of discovery (of God\u2019s will and one\u2019s disordered affections) which can help illuminate one\u2019s search for peace, freedom, and happiness.\u00a0 Ignatius entered on this way with\u00a0\u201cgreat courage and generosity toward his Creator and Lord.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>The modern pilgrim on the Ignatian Way must seek to achieve this same interior disposition.<\/p>\n

In the course of the first week of the Spiritual Exercises, the pilgrim is invited to follow the experience of Ignatius:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cInigo went over in his mind the course of his life, recalling the sins he had committed year by year, the houses in which he had lived, his dealings with other people, the positions he had held.\u00a0 Two feelings overpowered his soul, shame and sorrow: shame at the repulsiveness of his sins, sorrow for having offended God.\u00a0 But the result was not despair.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Finding himself before the Cross of God\u2019s love and discovering God\u2019s great compassion, Ignatius asks: \u201cWhat have I done for Christ?\u00a0 What am I doing for Christ?\u00a0 What ought I to do for Christ?\u201d\u00a0 The subsequent life of Ignatius will be the answer to this question.\u00a0 We invite our pilgrims to begin their first week walking with Ignatius and asking themselves, as he did:\u00a0 What have I done with my life?\u00a0 What is my orientation?\u00a0 What difference does God\u2019s make in my life?\u00a0 What about my disordered affections?\u00a0 There is no need for us to be in a rush to find answers.\u00a0 Rather, we should let the answers rise out of our meditations and our walks.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Second week:\u00a0<\/strong>Logro\u00f1o \u2013 Zaragoza<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we enter into the second stage of our Spiritual Exercises, we have already had some experience of the first fruits of our \u201cexercising\u201d: our heart is filled with the peace and love of Jesus Christ after experiencing his compassion and the warm embrace of the Father, who asks us to enter once more into his house.\u00a0 After this experience, not only do the pilgrims desire not to offend Jesus again, but they also want to follow him.\u00a0 As C. Dalmases tells us, Christ presents himself as a king whom the pilgrims are to serve\u00a0\u201cmore faithfully than they would serve the lords of the world.\u00a0 Jesus calls the pilgrims to join him in a great venture, the restoration of a lost humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>For Ignatius holiness means participating in the conquest of a kingdom.\u00a0 He was quite familiar with the enemies of Christ from his own experience in the world.\u00a0 After considering the invitation of Christ to join him,\u00a0\u201cIgnatius decided to take part in this campaign with the greatest of generosity.\u00a0 He wanted only to follow the example of Christ, who was walking before him.\u00a0 His fervent desire was to know Christ intimately so that he could love him more dearly and follow him more nearly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

By meditating on the scenes of the Gospel, Ignatius seeks\u00a0\u201cto penetrate deeply into the \u2018intentions\u2019 of the divine Master, that is, into his spirit and his basic principles, which are diametrically opposed to those of the world: poverty and humility over against greed and pride.\u00a0 Ignatius finds it all summed up in the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus teaches his beatitudes to the world.\u00a0 Ignatius accepts poverty and humiliations for the sake of imitating Christ poor and humiliated and of being accepted under his banner.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>In this second week, as the pilgrims journey along the Ignatian Way, they are asked to walk through the gospels with Jesus, and they are invited to enter into the service of Jesus Christ under his banner.\u00a0 As the pilgrims learn more about the \u201cway of Christ,\u201d they will soon discover whether they are as attracted by him as Ignatius was.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Third week: Zaragoza \u2013 Fraga<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Spiritual Exercises, this stage is the moment of confrontation: all the good desires and intentions that have been aroused in the prior stage need to be purified in the experience of death on the cross.\u00a0 Ignatius guides us through the mystery of the Lord\u2019s passion and his incomprehensible death.\u00a0 The pilgrim is invited to enter heart and soul into the sorrowful mysteries.\u00a0 The first disciples of Jesus recounted the events of the passion in great detail.\u00a0 These accounts seem to have been the very first ones recorded about Jesus, so that they would be well remembered.\u00a0 This shocking experience changed the world of the disciples, and it still changes our world.\u00a0 The Master was abandoned by all, even by his Father.\u00a0 But Jesus had the strength of Faith, the spirit of Love, and an enormous Hope that God would ultimately act for the benefit of all humankind.\u00a0 Ignatius invites us to share these moments, praying with Jesus in his agony, but also realizing that his passion is being re-enacted daily in the body of his poor, suffering people.\u00a0 This week the pilgrim is invited to meditate on the cross of Jesus, present in many forms, both in the pilgrim\u2019s life and in the world.\u00a0 We will feel great compassion for the crucified people of our world, and we will consider our own good intentions: are we prepared to follow our King to the very end?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fourth week: Fraga \u2013 Manresa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ignatius takes us to a new world in this our fourth and final week: the resurrection calls us to a new beginning, working again for the Kingdom.\u00a0 The grace we are to ask for during the fourth week is the consolation, the joy, and the new surge of life that the risen Christ gives to his followers, starting from Easter morning and continuing till our own day.\u00a0 We have experienced with Jesus the way of the cross, and now we share in his joy:\u00a0\u201c<\/em>For as the sufferings of the Messiah abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through the Messiah\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(1 Corinthians 1,5).\u00a0 In all the gospel contemplations proposed for this week, we observe how the risen Lord reveals himself with truly divine splendor through the consolation and fortitude he gives to those his Father loves.<\/p>\n

As we approach the end of our Ignatian Way, we feel already the joy of having a dream fulfilled: walking with Ignatius and Christ Jesus on the same spiritual path which transformed the life of that \u201cpompous courtier\u201d some 500 years ago.\u00a0 Let us give thanks to our God as we walk gladly through this fourth week.\u00a0 The Contemplation to Attain Love will help us to hold fast to the fruits of our pilgrimage.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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