21 The Spiritual Exercises – A Great Retreat for College Students

This week our Miles Christi religious community in Michigan will be doing its week-long annual retreat in an atmosphere of silence. We do it according to the Spiritual Exercises written by St. Ignatius of Loyola. My good friend Matthew, who graduated from UCLA and is now in his third year as a FOCUS missionary, discusses with me his experience in doing the Spiritual Exercises right out of college, and he says why every college student who wants to grow spiritually should do them! St. Ignatius lived from 1491 to 1556, and is the Founder of the Society of Jesus. Check the full show notes to find a link to the Book of the Spiritual Exercises and to the Encyclical ”Mens Nostra” of Pope Pius XI.