Day 28

Review and Repetition

Ignatius wants us to really absorb the material, not just to read, learn or study the scriptures and readings; he wants us to feel and taste it interiorly. Faithful to this principle he wants us to go over the meditations again, feeling them and tasting them. (Cardinal Carlo Martini, Letting God Free Us, p.62)

Ignatius speaks about drawing spiritual fruit. Returning and relishing the experience, allowing it to mould us and form us.

Look back over the prayer of the last week to see what struck you the most.

Sometimes in repetition of the prayer you may wish to repeat what has brought you most comfort or sense of God's presence, at other times you might return to a day that didn't move you at all, but you thought that it should have.

You might find it helpful in deepening the movements in prayer if you don't pray the whole of what you prayed the first time, but simply go straight to the part that really moved you.

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