THE BEST OF THE REVIEW 9:
Sharing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Introduction: What Does It Mean "To Belong To God" by David L. Fleming SJ
Preliminaries
The Books That Led Ignatius to God by Joseph N. Tylenda SJ
Ignatian Invitation: Remember and Imagine by David L. Fleming SJ
A Hidden Treasure of the Ignatian Exercises by J. Thomas Hamel SJ
God's Invitation by Armand Nigro SJ
Prayer by Joseph M. McCloskey SJ
Prayer is a Risk by Rick Malloy SJ
Examen: Persons in Relationships by Joseph A. Tetlow SJ
The Examen of Particulars by Joseph A. Tetlow SJ
Praying through Sleep by A. Paul Dominic SJ
The Spiritual Blahs—Rejection or Invitation? by George Aschenbrenner SJ
Ignatian Colloquies: Their Surpassing Value by A. Paul Dominic SJ
Content
Dialectic in the Spiritual Exercises by William P. O'Brien SJ
Images for Sin in the Ignatian Exercises by Frederick E. Crowe SJ
What Is a "First Week Retreat"? by David L. Fleming SJ
Our Lady's Presence in the Spiritual Exercise by J. Thomas Hamel SJ
The Parables of Jesus and the Ignatian Exercises by John J. Begley SJ
Learning from Jesus, the Son of Man byA. Paul Dominic SJ
Ripeness Is Everything: Wise Discipleship byThomas G. Casey SJ
Contemplation to Attain Love: A Paradigm for Apostolic Prayer by Gerald M. Fagin SJ
"Repose Days" during the Ignatian Exercises by Philip Shano SJ
The Finesse at the Finish of the Exercises by A. Paul Dominic SJ
Finding God's Will—A Maneuver by W. Henry Kenney SJ
God's Will: Where Desires Commingle by Denis Donoghue SJ
Decision Making in the Ignatian Tradition by William A. Barry SJ
Experience
Sharing God the Ignatian Way by David L. Fleming SJ
St. Ignatius and My Piano by Anita J. Baly
Two Prayers of St. Ignatius by J. Thomas Hamel SJ
Exercises
St. Albert's Method: 19th-Annotation Retreats at Parishes and Schools by Hank Hilton SJ
The Spiritual Power of Matter: Teilhard and the Exercises by Kathleen Duffy SSJ
"Here I Am": Ignatian Ways of Serving by David L. Fleming SJ
Index
Index of Articles, with Dates of Their Original Publication
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The journal Review for Religious is privileged to have published a large number of articles that made a significant contribution to one or other area of church life. Over the years, with the permission of their authors, I have collected articles on a single theme in a series of books bearing the general title The Best of the Review.
The present book is the third in this series to deal with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. The first book was titled Notes on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (The Best of the Review – 1). It was first published in 1981, with a few additional articles in the reprint of 1983. Since then, it has been reprinted three more times. Basically that book was a collection of articles published during the 1970s. The second book had the title Ignatian Exercises: Contemporary Annotations (The Best of the Review – 4). This book collected the articles that had been published from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. This third book represents a collection of articles from the mid 1990s to 2008 (The Best of the Review – 9).
The title, Sharing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, plays upon the Ignatian insight on love in his prenote to the prayer exercise Contemplation on the Love of God, the final exercises of the Fourth Week in the Spiritual Exercises. Ignatius first makes the observation that love is expressed more in deeds than in words. His second point states that lovers share what each has with the other.
What all the authors share through their articles is their love in giving us insight into the Ignatian Exercises. The Spanish word Ignatius uses is comunicar, which we tend to translate to share. The word seems to imply that all the sharing that lovers do is meant to “communicate.” Certainly we have been graced by the communication of these authors.
Besides the articles collected from Review for Religious, I have added an original introductory essay which is a reflection on the Third Week of the Exercises. In the first book, I presented an approach to the Exercises in terms of their dynamic movement. I reflected on the Second Week grace of discipleship in the second book. It seemed to follow naturally to work with the Third Week content in this third collection.
Some people have told me that they ignore the individual titles of these books and prefer to think of them simply as Notes 1, Notes 2, and Notes 3. As a matter of fact, they are correct in seeing each collection as “helps” or “further helps” just as Ignatius himself added throughout his text helpful notes to the original twenty annotations with which the Exercises begin.
Let me express my gratitude to all the authors whose articles make up this rich collection of insights and helps in making a retreat. I thank also the staff of Review for Religious—Philip Fischer SJ, Mary Ann Foppe, Tracy Gramm, and Judy Sharp—who always bear the burden of “extra” work when we publish a book.
May we all be graced in this “sharing” of the Ignatian Exercises.
David L. Fleming SJ
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