Posts Categorized: XXI.

The Long Line

Grace: To know and be able choose how to draw closer to the Lord, to do what is most in line with His plan for humanity and most conducive to my own happiness. Text for Prayer: Mark 10: 32-34 Reflection: Once we pass the half-way point of Lent, we start to think more and more of… Read more »

Three Dispositions of Decisionmaking

Grace: To choose what is more for the glory of God and the salvation of my soul. Text: SpEx #149-157 Reflection:  The Exercises are fundamentally geared toward helping us make good decisions, to bring us to that point at which we are properly disposed and can choose the same thing that God himself has already… Read more »

The Three Classes: The Test of Sincerity

Grace: To choose what is for God’s greater glory and the salvation of my soul. Text for Prayer: Lk. 12:35-48 Reflection: Yesterday’s meditation on the Two Standards had us consider what it means to be a follower of Christ, and in this way it gave us a sense of the direction and goal of our… Read more »

The Three Classes: The Test of Sincerity

Grace: To deepen the sense of my “open-handedness” and generosity with what the Lord has given me. Text for prayer: Lk. 12:35-48 Reflection: Still in the context of a kind of pause within the Exercises wherein we consider the state of life that the Lord calls us to and in the immediate wake of the… Read more »