The Programme of Rule adopts an order of spiritual exercises similar to that observed by the Fathers while Redemptorists.
We meet with page after page of self-accusation in general terms: "I am in want of greater love for those around me; I perform my spiritual duties too negligently; too little of my time is devoted to spiritual exercises.
From there he betook himself to the little town of Manresa, about three miles to the north, on the outskirts of which is the famous cave where he wrote the "Spiritual Exercises.
Then followed the discipline of the Spiritual Exercises, usually shortened to suit the capacities of the penitents.
His visions, his methods, the Spiritual Exercises themselves, cannot be understood apart from their intimate relations to that Mysticism which was characteristic of the religion of his land and of his age.
The "Spiritual Exercises" a book of things, not words.
If, as he says, he had strong temptations to bewail, it should have been his first care to strengthen his soul by spiritual exercises and to implore God’s assistance in the Holy Mass and by diligence in Choir.
The Constitution of the Order and Spiritual Exercises were written by him in Spanish.
He was author of the book which constitutes its germ and law, the Spiritual Exercises.
Every novice must go through the "Spiritual Exercises" in complete solitude, twice in his life.
It was here that he chiefly composed his "Spiritual Exercises," which contain so much beauty and devotion.
The little lamb, as if it had been trained to spiritual exercisesby the holy man, followed this lady to church, stayed there, and returned with her, never leaving her.
To this we may add, that it is sometimes the devil who instigates a person to undertake immoderate fasting, in order to render that person incapable of spiritual exercises, and for other evil intentions.
Others, however, joined him in Paris, and to some of them he gave the Spiritual Exercises, with the result that the Inquisition made him give up speaking on religious subjects during the time he was a student.
During his stay of a year and a half in this university, besides his classes, he found occasion to give to some companions his Spiritual Exercises in the form they had then taken and certain instructions in Christian doctrine.
He found in use for the pilgrims a translation of the Spiritual Exercises of the former abbot, Garcia di Cisneros (d.
Neither does he refer in any way to the famous cave in which, according to the Ignatian myth, the Spiritual Exercises were written.
His letter on this subject, addressed to the Jesuits of Coimbra in 1553, is still one of the standard formularies of the Society, ranking with those other products of his pen, the Spiritual Exercises and the Constitutions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritual exercises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
