Every time you make a choice you are turning the central
part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different
from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your
innumerable choices … you are slowly turning this central thing either into a
heavenly creature or into a hellish creature; either into a creature that is in
harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one
that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures,
and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven … to be the other
means madness … and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is
progressing to the one state or the other.
John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
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