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Final Prayers in the First Week of Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Abstract
Every meditation or contemplation in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola ends with the so-called final conversation – the colloquium of a participant with God. Final prayers, the colloquia experienced during the Ignatian retreat in their content not only refer to the fruit of a given meditation or contemplation, but are their culmination. In the intention of Saint Ignatius, the colloquia should bring something substantive to the spiritual experience of a participant. They are, in a way, the peak moment of every prayer – the moment to which everything is heading. The aim of the article is not to analyse the content of all colloquia in Spiritual Exercises, but only the conversations at the end of the meditation of the first week of the Ignatian retreat. The final conversations of successive meditations clearly indicate the inner dynamics of spiritual development that Saint Ignatius intended and offered to the participant. It is extraordinary, how one exercise, crowned with the final conversation, somehow prepares the participant for the next exercise and the next colloquium.
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prayer ; colloquium ; meditation ; Saint Ignatius of Loyola ; Spiritual exercises ; mercy modlitwa ; kolokwium ; medytacja ; św. Ignacy Loyola ; Ćwiczenia duchowe ; miłosierdzie
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