Every human being needs to regain strength by occasionally stepping away from daily activities. This is the purpose of sleep at night or rest on weekends. However, it is not enough to restore physical strength; above all, we need spiritual renewal, since the excellence of the soul is far superior to that of the body, as Saint Augustine affirms.

The moments we dedicate to Mass, prayer, meditation, and spiritual reading are essential for those who wish to walk in God’s ways and overcome the attacks of the enemy. Yet it is also necessary to set aside a period each year to withdraw from daily concerns and dedicate ourselves to Spiritual Exercises.

In eight sessions over two days, you will have the opportunity to examine your life through the Ignatian perspective of the Principle and Foundation:

“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man, that they may help him attain the end for which he is created. From this, it follows that man should use them insofar as they help him toward his end and detach himself from them insofar as they hinder him.

For this, it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things, in all that is permitted to our free will and not forbidden, so that we do not prefer health to sickness, riches to poverty, honor to dishonor, a long life to a short one, and so on in all things—desiring and choosing only what is most conducive to the end for which we are created.”

This course invites you to step back, reflect deeply, and reorder your life according to God’s will, seeking above all the salvation of your soul.