The Spiritual Exercises at the Frontiers
posted on April 12th, 2010
Ruth Holgate, director of Loyola Hall, is just back from a week long conference in Manresa, Spain–a place with historic importance in the story of St. Ignatius.
Fifty Jesuits and co-workers from 20 countries gathered to reflect on the way Ignatian Spirituality is being practised ‘at the frontiers’. The frontiers in question including the internet, politics, business, health care, urban life. and issues of morality and culture.
Ruth’s own presentation was on giving the Exercises to those who are not Roman Catholic — which, surprisingly, is a frontier issue in some parts of Europe still. Here at Loyola Hall we have a long tradition of giving the Spiritual Exercises to all-comers but it is not universally so across Europe.