Articles on the Spiritual Exercises
The British Jesuits’ journal of spirituality, The Way, has a vast searchable archive of articles available for download from 1961 to two years ago. That alone should keep anyone occupied for a long time!
The only problem is that most of the articles specifically related to the Spiritual Exercises are only available on CD. However, by kind permission of the Editor some of the classics can be downloaded here.
Spiritual Health Warning!
Reading about the Exercises before making them is a bad idea — let your own experience be a fresh one
- The Dynamic of the Spiritual Exercises – Joseph Veale
- To Make the Exercises Better – Brian Grogan
- The Principle and Foundation and Images of God – Philip Sheldrake
- The First Week Some Notes on the Text – Michael Ivens
- The First Week Practical Questions – Jospeh Veale
- The Christ of the Kingdom and the Company – James Walsh
- Structure and Dynamic of the Second Week as a Whole – William Broderick
- Becoming Whom We Contemplate – George Aschenbrenner
- Presenting the Two Standards – Brian Grogan
- The Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises – Peter Fennessy
- Praying the Passion – Dermot Mansfield
- Theology of the Cross and the Third Week – Philip Sheldrake
- Third and Fourth Weeks What the Directories Say – Brian OLeary
- Our Lady and the Graces of the Fourth Week – Philip Endean
- Consoler and Consolation – Brian OLeary
- The Victim as Forgiveness Arisen – Brian McDermott
- Contemplation to Attain Love – Michael Buckley
- The Structure of the Rules for Discernment of Spirits – Michael Buckley
- Discerning Behind the Rules – Philip Endean
- Models of Discernment – Tad Dunne
You might also be interested in several more recent articles on spiritual accompaniment and the Exercises by a member of the Loyola Hall team.
- Looking at God Looking at You
- Receiving and Rejecting – On Finding a Way in Spiritual Direction
- Id Quod Volo – The Erotic Grace of the Second Week
- Discernment of Spirits – A Cosmological View
- Imagining Ignatian Spiritual Direction
Other good places to look for articles on the Exercises or on spiritual accompaniment include Human Development magazine and Review for Religious — they both list past articles but either need a subscription or payment for hard copies of their material.
A selection of Ignatius’ letters is available, with commentary, on-line at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. Also hosted at Georgetown is a series of videos on the Spiritual Exercises with some of the leading figures in the field.
Theological Studies has scholarly theological articles available for download and some of which might be of interest to students of the Exercises.