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.
Beauty reveals God to us in ways we cannot describe, but we know we must gaze upon it. Beauty stirs something inside us, and it calls us to freedom we did not know we needed. It tends to draw us away from selfishness and brings us into a virtual communion. It is an antidote to narcissism because we must look outward to stand in awe. It directs us to God by drawing us out of ourselves to seek the divine Creator, the one who participates in all that is created.
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