Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way

Reflecting on our daily experiences and our major ones helps us delve into their deeper meaning. This can be done alone using the Examen prayer, or it can be done as a group in intentional faith sharing. What did you learn from your experiences? What might God be telling you through them? Next the disciples went back to their busy work, as we must do.

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The key here is letting your reflection and prayer time inform how you approach your work when you return to it. Perhaps you discover the need for more rest time or that you need to focus more on a particular relationship.

The Ignatian Way: Contemplative in Action

Or perhaps you discover a desire to reinvigorate your job. Contemplation allows us to renew our active lives work, play, relationships so that all we do does not become mindless action but rather glorifies God. Then the cycle repeats. Your activity leads you again into a time of stopping, resting, reflecting, and then returning to activity with greater zeal and purpose. Being a contemplative in action means that your active life feeds your contemplative life and your contemplative life informs your active life.

That is what contemplation in action means, and the cycle never ends.

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A few of them are already in heaven. I pray that I can also be an Ignatian friend to the younger generation. Thank you for this clear insight into the importance of setting time aside.

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Contemplatives in Action

Check copyright status Cite this Title Contemplatives in action: Author Barry, William A. Other Authors Doherty, Robert G. Jesuits -- Spiritual life. Spirituality -- Catholic Church. Jesuits - Spiritual life Spirituality - Catholic Church Summary A portrait of Jesuit spirituality examines its differences from other forms of Catholic spirituality, exploring the order's creative tensions between companionship and mission, obedience and learning from experience, and center and periphery in the Church.

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The Tension between Companionship and Mission 6. The Tension between Obedience and Learning from Experience 7. The Tension between the Center and the Periphery in the Church 8. Creative Tensions in the Practice of Chastity