The following are supplements referred to weekly during the Spiritual Exercises retreat. They are collected here for easier access. Some weeks do not have any supplements.
Week 1: Images of God
- Reflection: “What is Your Image of God?”
- Song: This is My Father’s World (music); see lyrics here.
- Poem: “Mothering Creator of All”
- Song: “My Redeemer is Faithful and True”
- Reflection: Who Is God in a World of Suffering?
Week 2: God Created You and Loves You
Week 3: Your Relationship with the Rest of Creation
- Videos: BBC Planet Earth
- Photographs: The HONY website
Week 4: Praying for Inner Freedom
- Reflection: “Experiencing Ignatian Inner Freedom” (see also Ignatian Indifference and Today’s Spirituality)
- Prayer: Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace
Week 5: The Examen, Learning to Pray with Discernment
- Prayer Practice: “The Examen”
- Reflection: “Your Emotions and the Spiritual Life”
- Video/Audio Examen (with Karen)
Week 7: Cosmic, Global, and Historical Dimensions of Sin
- Prayer Practices: “Praying During the Spiritual Exercises“
- Reflection: “Lament: A Response to Sinful Tragedy”
Week 8: Remember God’s Mercy
- Song: And Can it Be That I Should Gain (music); see lyrics here.
- Art Reflection: “Woman Caught in Adultery,” by Woonbo Kim Ki-chang.
- Song: Broken Things (See lyrics here)
Week 9: Personal Sin
- Prayer Practices: “Praying During the Spiritual Exercises“
- Podcast: The Refreshing Practice of Repentance
- Prayer: Anima Christi
- Prayer Practice: “The Examen”
Week 10: Sin and Mercy, Seeing the Whole Picture
- Reflection: “Legalism, Licentiousness, or Christianity?” (see also Word doc)
- Art Reflection: “Reconciliation” by Margaret Adams Parker (Luke 15:11-32).
- Prayer Practices: “Praying During the Spiritual Exercises“
- Song: Wonderful, Merciful Savior (music); see lyrics here.
Week 11: Seeking Freedom, Turning from Hindrances
- Reflection: “Experiencing Ignatian Inner Freedom“
- Song: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (music); see lyrics here.
- Prayer: “Patient Trust” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Week 12: Longing for Transformation and God’s Merciful Intervention
- Reflection: Come O Come Emmanuel (lyrics); see also music here.
- Reflection: Come Lord and Tarry Not (lyrics); see also music here.
Week 14: Anticipating the Kingdom
- Reflection: “Imagination and the Spiritual Life”
- Reflection: “Contemplation of a Heroic Leader”
- Reflection: Gary Haugen (video; 9 min)
- Watch video: Mary McLeod Bethune – African Americans Who Left Their Stamp On History
- Reflection Practice: “Reading Scripture with the Senses”
Week 15: The Incarnation, Infancy
- Reflection: Ponder the “Incarnation Contemplation”
- Reflection Practice: “Reflecting on Art for the Soul”
- Art Reflection: Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting “The Annunciation” (Luke 1:26-56)—the scene where Gabriel appears to Mary.
- Reflection: “O Holy Night”
- Song: “O Come All Ye Faithful” (music); see lyrics here.
Week 16: The Incarnation, Childhood
- Art Reflection: “Jesus Among the Teachers” by Jesus Mafa (Luke 2:41-52)
Week 17: God’s Will vs. Temptation
- Reflection: Read letters (chapters) 4 & 12 of The Screwtape Letters.
- Reflection: Read letter (chapter) 14 of The Screwtape Letters.
- Prayer Practice: The Examen
Week 18: God’s Will vs. Temptation
- Reflection: “Meditation on the Two Standards”
Week 19: Humility, Simplicity, and Inner Freedom
- Reflection: “Three Types of People Meditation”
Week 20: Getting to Know Jesus
- Reflection Practice: “Reading Scripture with the Senses”
- Art Reflection: “Healing of the Bent Woman” (Luke 13:10-21) by Dmitry Shkolnik
- Song: “Give Me Jesus“
Week 21: Getting to Know Jesus
- Prayer Practice: The Examen
- Art Reflection: “Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem” (Mark 11) by He Qi.
Week 22: Getting to Know Jesus
- Art: “The Calling of St. Matthew” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
- Song: “Come to Jesus“
Week 23: Making a Decision in Freedom
- Reflection: “Meditation on the Two Standards” and “Three Types of People Meditation”
- Reflection: “Three Kinds of Humility”
- Prayer: “O God, What Offering Shall I Give?”
Week 25: The Walk to Jerusalem
- Reflection: “Bethany to Jerusalem Contemplation”
- Story: Sophie Scholl
Week 26: Final Days
- Movie: Of Gods and Men
Week 27: Arrest and Crucifixion
- Reflection: Jesus’s Arrest and Anthony Ray Hinton
- Picture: Man crucified by ISIS (viewer discretion advised)
- Song: “Crown of Thorns”
Week 28: Grieving Death
- Video: Stations of the Cross (20 min)
Week 30: Life! Resurrection Stories
- Reflection: Reunion of a father with his small son
- Reflection: “Contemplation of Jesus’s Appearance to His Mother”
Week 31: Life! Resurrection Stories
- Reflection: “Now the Green Blade Riseth” (see also music here)
- Art Reflection: Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio
Week 32: Life! Resurrection Stories
- Reflection: “What Did Jesus Do With His Resurrected Body?”
Week 33: The Holy Spirit’s Presence and Gifts
- Prayer: “Come Down, O Love Divine” (hear also the song).
Week 34: Contemplation to Attain Love
- Song: “My Redeemer is Faithful and True”
- Poem: “Fall in Love”
Week 35: Contemplation to Attain Love
- “Take My Life and Let It Be” (hear also the song)