The Spiritual Exercises

of

St. Ignatius of Loyola

 

TRANSLATED FROM

THE AUTOGRAPH

BY

FATHER ELDER MULLAN, S.J.

I.H.S.

NEW YORK

P.J. KENEDY & SONS

PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE

 


 

Facultatem concedimus ut liber cui titulus “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola translated from the Autograph by Father Elder Mullan, S.J.,” typis edatur, si iis ad quos spectat ita videbitur.

Franciscus Xav. Wernz

Praepositus Generalis Societatis Jesu

Nihil Obstat

Remigius Lafort, S.T.D.,

Censor

 

Imprimatur

John Cardinal Farley,

Archiepiscopus Neo-Eboracensis,

 

Neo-Eboraci

Die 25 Aprilis, 1914.

 

Imprimatur

Fr. Albert Lepidi, O.P.,

Mag. Sac. Pal.

 

Imprimatur

Joseph Ceppetelli,

Patriarcha Constantinop.

Vicesgerens

 

COPYRIGHT, 1914

 

BY P.J. KENEDY & SONS

 

Approbation of the Latin Text
Preface
General Note
Prayer of Father Diertins
Annotations
Presupposition
First Week
Principle and Foundation
Particular and Daily Examen
General Examen
General Confession with Communion
Meditation on the First, the Second, and the Third Sin
Meditation on Sins
First Repetition
Second Repetition
Third Repetition
Meditation on Hell
Additions
Note
Second Week
The Call of the Temporal King
Notes
First Day
The Incarnation
The Nativity
Third Contemplation
Fourth Contemplation
Fifth Contemplation
Notes
Second Day
Note
Third Day
Preamble to Consider States
Fourth Day ~ Two Standards ~ Note
Three Pairs of Men ~ Note
Fifth Day
Sixth Day
Seventh Day
Eighth Day
Ninth Day
Tenth Day
Eleventh Day
Twelfth Day
Notes
Three Manners of Humility ~ Note
Prelude for Making Election
Matter of Election - Note
Times for Making Election
First Way
Second Way ~ Note
To Amend and Reform one’s own Life and State
Third Week
First Contemplation ~ Note
Second Contemplation ~ Notes
Third Day
Fourth Day
Fifth Day
Sixth Day
Seventh Day
Note
Eating
Fourth Week
First Contemplation
Notes
Contemplation to Gain Love
Three Methods of Prayer ~ First Method
Second Method
Third Method
Mysteries of the Life of Christ our Lord
Rules for Perceiving the Movements Caused in the Soul
Rules for the Discernment of Spirits
Rules for Distributing Alms
Notes on Scruples and Persuasions of the Enemy
Rules to have the True Sentiment in the Church
General Index and Footnotes