The goal of our life is to live with God forever.\u00a0God who loves us, gave us life.\u00a0Our own response of love allows God’s life to flow into\u00a0us without limit.<\/p>\n
All the things in this world are gifts of God, presented to us so that we can\u00a0know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.<\/span><\/p>\n As a result, we appreciate and use all of these gifts of God insofar as they help us develop as loving persons.<\/p>\n But if any of these gifts become the center of our lives, they displace God and so hinder our growth toward our goal.<\/p>\n In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all of these created gifts insofar as we have a choice and are not bound by some obligation.<\/p>\n We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or\u00a0failure, a long life or short one.<\/span><\/p>\n For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God.<\/p>\n Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better\u00a0leads to the deepening of God’s life in me.<\/span><\/p>\n Saint Ignatius of Loyola The goal of our life is to live with God forever.\u00a0God who loves us, gave us life.\u00a0Our own response of love allows God’s life to flow into\u00a0us without limit. All the things in this world are gifts of God, presented to us so that we can\u00a0know God more easily and make a return of love … Continue reading First Principle and Foundation: a fundamental spiritual teaching of Loyola<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32084],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31254,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions\/31254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpiritual Exercises<\/em> (a new trans.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"