The second and third weeks lead the exercitant along the illuminative way. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The four weeks of the Exercises acquaint the exercitant with the three degrees of the spiritual life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The eighteenth annotation forbids them to be given indiscriminately; without considering who the exercitant is. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
However, though the method of St. Ignatius leaves the exercitant to think for himself, the author does not intend that the latter should use it without guidance. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Spiritual Exercises, the secret of Ignatius's success, are a series of considerations arranged, as he tells the exercitant from the first, to enable him to make a choice or election on the highest principals and without fear of consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
In their fullness they should, according to Ignatius 'idea, ordinarily be made once or twice only; but in part (from three to four days) they may be most profitably made annually, and are now commonly called "retreats", from the seclusion or retreat from the world in which the exercitant lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
We find in the annotations at the beginning, in the notes strewn here and there, in the rules for the discernment of spirits a real system of spiritual training, that makes adequate provision for the different states of soul of the exercitant, and warns him, or rather his director, of what is most fitting, according to the circumstances of the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
To obtain the desired result St. Ignatius uses only a few words, but these are so selected as to make a deep impression on the mind and, if seriously meditated on by the exercitant and fostered in his soul, will soon develop into powerful thoughts and become a source of great spiritual enlightenment and consequently of earnest energetic resolutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Exercises "in the hands of a director, and entrusts him with applying it to the exercitant. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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