For the next few weeks, you'll be sampling from The Spiritual Exercises designed by Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order. In order to do the reflection, you will first need to experience some element of the spiritual exercises. There is thus a practical element of the assignment, though you will NOT be turning in any of the fruits of those practical labors (thus if you keep a list or write something down that is PERSONAL please don't turn it in). The written reflection, instead, should be about the experience of sampling from the spiritual exercises. You might write about the notion of time, conscience, writing, etc. that The Spiritual Exercises commend. In other words, what is like to wake up in the morning and examine your conscience? Are you doing that already? What is like to keep lists of virtuous and vicious thoughts? You are commended here, in other words, to reflect more abstractly rather than confessionally.
To aid you in this reflection, I offer the following helpful links to digital versions of Ignatius's Exercises:
This site is maintained by Oregonian Jesuits
OR
Here one can find various kinds of files (from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
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