Sacred Story an Ignatian Examen for the Third Millennium
Title: Sacred Story an Ignatian Examen for the Third Millennium
Author: William M. Watson, SJ
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Synopsis
How and why did St. Ignatius Loyola develop the Examen prayer? What is it supposed to accomplish for those who practice it? Why do people choose to forgo this discipline that has proved to be invaluable and essential to spiritual growth and the discernment of spirits over the centuries? What are the contemporary cultural crises confronting today's would-be Examen practitioners provoking distrust, fear, or dismissive attitudes towards it? How can an Examen faithful to Ignatius original method be modernized to address the mindset of today's Christians? This book in its three parts takes a new approach to answer these questions. It provides a new analysis on how Ignatius' spiritual Examen disciplines were developed, the challenges inherent in practicing them, and a dynamic new reading of the Examen called Sacred Story. This book will give you the spiritual tools you need for a practical, daily prayer discipline that incorporates principles of spiritual discernment.
Content
Author's Preface
- Ignatius is a perfect archetype for contemporary culture. He had most of the emotional, intellectual, and psychological complexes that make people today fear any limit to the free expression of their instinctual drives: dysfunctional family, compulsive appetites, addictive personality, narcissism, greed for celebrity and wealth, sexual self-indulgence and a love of violence. He did what he wanted because it suited him.
Introduction
Notes
- “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence, and that is activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of this innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone and everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” Thomas Merton: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: (New York, Doubleday, 1966), 73.
Watson, William. Sacred Story: An Ignatian Examen for the Third Millennium (p. 247). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Kindle Edition.
Other facts
- Used for: 40 Week program at Holy Redeemer
- Purchased: February 2018
Bibliographic info
- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Sacred Story Press (December 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0615667368
- ISBN-13: 978-0615667362