The retreat asks for an hour each day of personal prayer with material assigned by a spiritual director, a weekly meeting with the director, and monthly meetings. Participants focus their spiritual activity on the Exercises for the nine months of the retreat.
At the monthly meetings
- Talks on prayer, the life of St. Ignatius, and Ignatian spirituality.
- Small-group faith sharing and personal prayer time.
- Guidance for discerning God’s call.
- Materials to begin and continue praying.
Prayer methods learned with practice
- Imaginative prayer with Biblical narratives and spiritual figures.
- Meditation to calm the mind and deepen relationship with God.
- Contemplation in stillness and dialogue with the Divine.
- Discernment using the rules described by St. Ignatius.