Sacred Listening: Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
For five centuries, Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises have been leading Christians to deeper faith. Now, James Wakefield brings the richness of this enduring text to contemporary Protestants. Sacred Listening adapts Ignatius’ original month-long spiritual retreat into a guide that helps you weave prayer and contemplation of Scripture into your day-to-day schedule.
Top Highlights
“Sacred Listening is an adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola for contemporary people with little or no formal training in spiritual disciplines. This adaptation accommodates a regular work schedule, highlights the scriptural inferences of the original Exercises, incorporates small revisions to avoid unnecessarily alienating Protestants, and allows for use with small groups.” (Page 16)
“Ideally, pastors, spiritual directors, mentors, and small group leaders will encourage the use of Sacred Listening to introduce spiritually hungry people to contemplative prayer. The initial commitment is sixty to ninety minutes each day for the eight weeks of the first movement.12 The full exercises of Sacred Listening take at least twenty-four weeks.” (Page 16)
“No program of spiritual growth will succeed if it is not entered into with desire for greater intimacy with God. One purpose should motivate you: to know Christ better and so love him more.” (Page 27)
“We are called to desire God above all things, and we are taught to love our neighbors sacrificially. Secure in God’s love for us, we learn to experience God’s peace in every situation.” (Page 17)
“As we come closer to Christ, who is the Light of the World, we will suspect, and then discover, a great deal of darkness within our own souls.” (Page 29)