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The Spiritual Exercises

Ignatius of Loyola's four-week retreat manual for the discernment of the heart

Translator: Elder Mullan, S.J. (1865–1925), 1914.

Source: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York

Licence: Public Domain. Father Elder Mullan's translation from the Spanish Autograph (New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1914). Strict public domain. Lightly modernised by Soul Spirit Self (archaic verb forms and pronouns updated; substantive translation choices preserved).

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Ignatius's four-week retreat manual, the spine of the Jesuit contemplative tradition. The Exercises are not a book to read but a structured month of meditations on creation, sin, the life of Christ, the Passion, and the Resurrection — designed to bring the retreatant to discernment between the consolations and desolations of the spirit.