Ignatian Spirituality: Set the World Ablaze

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.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Spirituality: Binding oneself to God

To bind oneself more to God our Lord and to show oneself generous toward Him is to consecrate oneself completely and irrevocably to His service....

The more one binds himself to God our Lord and shows himself more generous toward His Divine Majesty, the more he will find God more generous toward himself and the more disposed will he be to receive graces and spiritual gifts which are greater each day.

(Ganss, trans., The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, p. 163)