A Spiritual Retreat

Course Summary

Every human being needs to regain his strength by occasionally taking a break from his activities. This is the function of sleeping at night or resting on weekends. But it is not enough to recover physical strength; above all, we need spiritual strengthening since the excellence of the spirit is eminently superior to that of the body, as St. Augustine affirms.

The pauses we take for going to Mass, prayer, meditation, and spiritual reading are fundamental for those who want to walk the path of God and overcome the enemy’s attacks. However, it is essential to set aside a period each year to withdraw from daily tasks and dedicate ourselves to SPIRITUAL EXERCISES.

In eight meetings over two days, you will have the opportunity to analyze your life through the Ignatian prism of Principle and Foundation: 

“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man, and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created. From this, it follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end and ought to rid himself of them so far as they hinder him as to it.

For this, it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so in all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to the end for which we are created”.