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IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY goal

 

To live out our Parish Goal of “Finding God in Myself, Others and all Situations for God’s Greater Glory" by developing a Personal Relationship with the Lord through a meaningful Prayer Life.

Living the Parish Goal through Ignatian Spirituality

 

There are many ways of living the Gospel values of Christ, but in our Parish we would like to embrace the Ignatian way of deepening our relationship with our Lord in our daily living. This “Ignatian way” is drawn from the perspective of how God inspired Inigo de Loyola, when he was a lay person searching for a deeper meaning in life.

 

In other words, this “Ignatian way” is a spirituality that arose from a person who experienced God as a lay person; a lay spirituality; not as an ordained priest or a consecrated religious. In Inigo’s relentless search for a deeper meaning in life, God eventually led Inigo to found the Society of Jesus in 1540, (popularly known as “Jesuits”), for His Greater Glory.

 

Ignatian Spirituality is finding God in the concrete realities of our daily living. This spirituality is particularly relevant in our 21 st century secular world that denies and militates against God’s divine presence in our lives. Thus, what St Ignatius has to offer us is rich and insightful; not only to lay people, but also to all peoples who are searching for a deeper meaning in life.

 

This is because St Ignatius wants us to find God Our Lord in the very real and concrete experiences of our daily living. God is present lovingly and compassionately within our hearts, He lives in our homes, He feels our pains, He rejoices in our successes, He accompanies us when we are down and depressed, He dreams of better times with us.

 

Our God and Lord is also present in the poor, the sick, the dying, the people who are shunned by secular society because they are “nobodies” like migrant workers, drug addicts, HIV Aids patients, refugees, victims of landmines, illiterates, abused children and other victims of unjust social structures that oppress the voiceless of society and the like.

 

In Ignatian Spirituality, we are challenged to change our old perceptions of life and to “put on a new world view” of our lives. We are challenged to see ourselves and the people with whom we relate and the changing situations we encounter daily in God’s ways. In other words, we are challenged to see, sense and discern how God is actively present and personally participating in all realities of our lives and in what is happening in the world.

 

 

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