Finding God in All Things and All Things in God

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is regarded as an all time classic by many. It has been responsible for the transformation not only of Jesuits, but of so many who had the privilege to ‘make’ or ‘do’ the Exercises. In its simplest form, the Exercises are divided into four ‘weeks’, where a week is not a period of seven days, but a set of meditations dedicated to particular themes. Thus in the ‘first week’ of the Exercises, the focus is on Sin and Repentance. Repentance here is interpreted as the unconditional love of God which fills the heart of the exercitant or retreatant and allows him/her to look at things in a new way