The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

This comprehensive manual presents a radically new way to make the Spiritual Exercises to retreat directors, spiritual guides, parish leaders, and other pastoral ministers. Michael Hansen, S.J., provides a wealth of expertise and wise counsel in showing leaders how to direct The First Spiritual Exercises.

Designed for those who direct The First Spiritual Exercises (released April 2013) or train others to direct them, this manual provides a wealth of practical information on the origins and dynamics of these retreats, providing leaders with the tools they need to become effective guides and trainers.

Hansen distinguishes The First Spiritual Exercises from the two other, better-known ways that the Exercises are made: during a thirty-day solitary retreat or at home over a similar time period. The Manual offers a brief history and description of The First Spiritual Exercises, as well as notes and instructions on the day-by-day structure and content of each of the four retreats. Leaders also receive guidance on the place of the sacraments and of Sunday in the retreats, along with a five-step learning process: pray, learn, guide, converse, and practice.

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The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

This comprehensive manual presents a radically new way to make the Spiritual Exercises to retreat directors, spiritual guides, parish leaders, and other pastoral ministers. Michael Hansen, S.J., provides a wealth of expertise and wise counsel in showing leaders how to direct The First Spiritual Exercises.

Designed for those who direct The First Spiritual Exercises (released April 2013) or train others to direct them, this manual provides a wealth of practical information on the origins and dynamics of these retreats, providing leaders with the tools they need to become effective guides and trainers.

Hansen distinguishes The First Spiritual Exercises from the two other, better-known ways that the Exercises are made: during a thirty-day solitary retreat or at home over a similar time period. The Manual offers a brief history and description of The First Spiritual Exercises, as well as notes and instructions on the day-by-day structure and content of each of the four retreats. Leaders also receive guidance on the place of the sacraments and of Sunday in the retreats, along with a five-step learning process: pray, learn, guide, converse, and practice.

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The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

by Michael Hansen
The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

The First Spiritual Exercises: A Manual for Those Who Give the Exercises

by Michael Hansen

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This comprehensive manual presents a radically new way to make the Spiritual Exercises to retreat directors, spiritual guides, parish leaders, and other pastoral ministers. Michael Hansen, S.J., provides a wealth of expertise and wise counsel in showing leaders how to direct The First Spiritual Exercises.

Designed for those who direct The First Spiritual Exercises (released April 2013) or train others to direct them, this manual provides a wealth of practical information on the origins and dynamics of these retreats, providing leaders with the tools they need to become effective guides and trainers.

Hansen distinguishes The First Spiritual Exercises from the two other, better-known ways that the Exercises are made: during a thirty-day solitary retreat or at home over a similar time period. The Manual offers a brief history and description of The First Spiritual Exercises, as well as notes and instructions on the day-by-day structure and content of each of the four retreats. Leaders also receive guidance on the place of the sacraments and of Sunday in the retreats, along with a five-step learning process: pray, learn, guide, converse, and practice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781594713804
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Publication date: 08/26/2013
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Hansen, S.J., is a retreat leader, speaker, spiritual formation teacher, and spiritual director on the retreat team at Campion Centre of Ignatian Spirituality in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He also works in the post-ordination formation program for the Australian Jesuits. Hansen has served in several schools and parishes, produced radio and television programs, and is the author of five books, including The First Spiritual Exercises, The Gospels for Prayer, and The Land of Walking Trees.

Hansen's academic background includes degrees in the arts and theology. He has developed creative uses of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and, with a large team of spiritual directors, has designed and given these exercises in many different retreat forms—both for groups and individuals. Hansen gives retreats around Australia and abroad, always seeking to make the tools and experience of the Spiritual Exercises accessible to as many as possible.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1 A Friend of God

The Story of the First Spiritual Exercises 9

Moving with Inner Peace 15

Sent with the First Spiritual Exercises 17

Developing a Support Network 19

Part 2 A Spiritual Conversation Guide

Speaking about the Things of God 35

How to Use the Listening Book 39

How to Guide Spiritual Conversation 43

Part 3 A Giver of the First Spiritual Exercises

Structure and Dynamic of the First Spiritual Exercises 71

Giving Inner Peace in Divine Love 75

Giving Inner Peace in Darkness and Light 93

Giving Inner Peace in Friendship with Jesus 113

Giving Inner Peace in Service of God 133

Exercises Common to All Retreats 147

The Guide to Enhance Exercises 161

Acknowledgments 173

Notes 175

Recommended Reading 177

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