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Choosing Christ in the World: Directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola According to Annotations Eighteen and Nineteen : A Handbook , (Series IV--Study aids on Jesuit topics)

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"Choosing Christ in the World : Directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola According to Annotations Eighteen and Nineteen" is not a book to read, but to pray with and to prepare somebody for an at-home retreat. St. Ignatius Loyola knew that it is mostly impossible for lay people to follow a 30-day retreat and therefore designed the "Annotation Nineteen" that gives an opportunity for busy people to do the retreat individually and consult their retreat giver by mail, or now, by email. The book consists of guidance for the retreat giver (on the left pages), and the retreatants: the biblical texts and prayers to meditate on (on the right pages). The Spritual Exercises are really tough for the lay, but what I like most from this book is that it prepares the retreatants to come to a spiritual atmosphere which gradually moves them to be closer to God and enter the meditation and contemplation as required.