Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Week four
The last freedom
Jesus gave us everything he had: his
love, his body, his blood, his life. He
had nothing more he could give. So he
cried out on the cross, "Father! In your
hands I place my spirit!" Luke:23:46
Dr. Viktor Frankl was a prisoner of the
Nazis in World War. In Man's Search For
Meaning, he writes about a side of the
camps that we rarely hear of. He says:
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journal. A note attached to it, said that it
may be published in case of his death.
One entry in the journal concerned the
turning point in his life. It read:
"I don't know Who--or What--
put the question.
I don't even know when it was put.
I don't even remember answering.
"But at some moment I did answer yes
to Someone or Something.
At that hour I was certain existence
is meaningful and that, therefore,
my life in self-surrender had a goal."
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To what extent do I have a goal
when it comes to my my spiritual life?
"Take, Lord...all that I hold dear.
You have given all these things to me.
I now place them all at your service."
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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