What is Ignatian Spirituality?
1 ° There are many ways to express what is meant by spirituality. We understand it as "the encounter of the human spirit with the Spirit of God, so God does His proposal, and the human person responds to God's plan."
2 ° Ignacio met God at a crucial moment of his life when he felt in his wounded body AND the failure of human ambitions. From then captured the imagination of God, was called "discerning" His proposal, and responded in a gradual and progressive, but total and radical.
3 ° The experience of "conversion" to God was living for several years, and Ignatius wrote a book called "Spiritual Exercises" which according to the same author, 'Iodine best in this life I can think, feel and understand, and to be able to take advantage of the man himself, to be fruitful and help and take advantage of many. "
4 ° The main features of the spirituality that comes from the Spiritual Exercises you can summarized as follows Points:
- passionate search for God.
- ability to discern the "signs of God."
- zealous attitude always want more and better "in the service of God.
- Sympathy and harmony with all creation and human.
- inner freedom and availability to serve the Kingdom.
- Knowledge, opinions and personal love for Jesus Christ.
- integration between contemplation and action, "all love and serve"
- Love and obedience to the real Church.
- Harmonization of service to the faith and the promotion of justice
- culture of virtue and devotion solid.
5 ° The Ignatian spirituality has a clear direction for the ministry. Inspired by Christ's invitation to collaborate with him in building the Kingdom of God, the person living that spirituality is experiencing a strong inclination to put all their talents at the service of evangelization. This means that it is very clear that he intends to God, and knows all things relative terms as a means to the end.
6 The experience of spirituality that is nourished and channeled through a triple channel: Prayer, Formation and Action. Prayer and action are part of the famous formula of "contemplation in action. " The formation of the person is permanent, intense and geared towards Christian maturity apostle is not studied to see no more, but to serve better.
7 ° The ideal of living the Christian presupposes and requires a great deal of inner freedom, that Ignatius called "indifference", but the interior layout is needed to live the evangelical approach of "Look, first of all, the kingdom and the righteousness of God, and everything else will be given you besides "(Mt 6.33).
8 ° The achievement of that inner freedom is the result of a process of human and Christian formation in which merges the personal cultivation of that power with the personal spiritual experience that makes you discover in Jesus "the great value of his life." Hence it is quite properly say that the Christ-is a dominant feature of those who share Ignatian spirituality.
Source: Jesuits in Paraguay
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