Session 1
November 9, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 2
November 16, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 3
November 23, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 4
November 30, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 5
December 7, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 6
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 7
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 8
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 9
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 10
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 11
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 12
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 13
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 14
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 15
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 16
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 17
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 18
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 19
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm

London Jesuit Centre

The introductory session is online on 2 November from 07.00pm to 07.30pm.

Online Course Details    

Ignatian Spirituality has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last few decades, as Ignatian religious orders responded to Vatican II and revisited their spiritual roots. This movement has  opened up the spiritual life for many people across the Christian spectrum.  The future direction of Ignatian Spirituality is evolving through conversations about its distinctive character and its potential to meet people where they find themselves in their lives. This course seeks to engage with themes and ideas from the wider culture that lend themselves to an Ignatian connection. Each week we will look at a different potential point of connection, giving us the opportunity to reflect together and think creatively about the richness of Ignatian spirituality and how best to present it to others.

This course runs over five weeks.

Week 1
Ignatian Spirituality in conversation with the film industry

This week we look at how we can use film to help people to develop self-awareness and seek a relationship with God. We shall use four different examples to show a movement within each week of the Spiritual Exercises.

Week 2
Ignatian Spirituality in conversation with the mindfulness movement

This week we look at one popular approach to spirituality today. We will seek to appreciate the various practices associated with ‘mindfulness’ and how, beyond any benefits for mental health, they may open the path to the life of faith.

Week 3
Ignatian Spirituality in conversation with yoga

This week we look at a particular project that makes use of the practice of yoga in dialogue with the Ignatian way. Is this conversation a way forward for bringing people closer to the Lord?

Week 4
Ignatian Spirituality in conversation with ecumenism

This week we look at how Ignatian spirituality resources many Christians of various Christian backgrounds and thus fosters new forms of Christian harmony.  

Week 5
Approaches to the spiritual life flowing from Ignatian spirituality

This week we look at how we can open ourselves to a deeper relationship with God. From disorder through liberation to a greater awareness we learn.

Each week there will be a recorded video presentation/audio which you can watch/listen to at any time that suits you. A new presentation will be added each week. There is also assigned reading for each week and questions for reflection and research.

Each week concludes with a seminar led by the course tutors, lasting about an hour and a half. To benefit fully from the seminars you need to have watched the video or listen to the autdo presentation, done the assigned reading, and spent some time working at the questions for reflection (on which the seminar discussion will be based).

Course
Resources

Introductory Session: Wednesday 2 November 2022

Ad libitum

Ruth Holgate, Growing into God. In The Way Vol 42, Issue 3 (July 2003), pg. 7-18.

 

Course theme questions

  1. What do I usually read and watch? What type of activities do I involve myself in? Which of these bring me peace and joy? And why?
  2. How do these activities engage me emotionally?
  3. In what area of my life do I find time to rest and replenish my energies?

 

 

Week 1: Wednesday 9 November 2022

 

John Pugente SJ and Monty Williams SJ, Finding God in the Dark, Novalis, Ottawa, Canada, 2004, pg.12-29

 

 

MOVIE TIPS with QUESTIONS

Choose one movie to watch and try to answer reflection questions

 

Rome and Juliet (1996)

 

Billy Elliot (2000)

 

Shrek (2001)

Week 2: Wednesday 16 November 2022

 

If you wish to learn more about mindfulness

Mark Williams and Denny Penman, Mindfulness A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Piatkus, London,2011.

 

Available on Amazon or eBay.

 

Mark Williams and Denny Penman

 

 

VIDEO INPUT to learn

Watch Timothy Muldoon and his take on Ignatian mindfulness

 

 

VIDEO TIPS to practice

Choose one exercise with some repetition per day and then note down your experience

 

Mark Williams, Mindfulness Meditation

Week 3: Wednesday 23 November 2022

If you wish to learn about Ignatian Spirituality and Yoga


Hoover, Joseph SJ, What’s the deal with Ignatian yoga? A skeptical Jesuit finds out. In America February 18, 2019 issue.

 Yoga Dictionary

 

VIDEO INPUT to learn

Watch the Channel Breathe and Flow to see how young people practice yoga today

 

VIDEO TIPS to practice

Choose an exercise to try out and note down your experience

 

Week 4: Wednesday 30 November 2022

If you wish to learn about Ignatian Spirituality and Ecumenism


Spiritual ecumenism at work? In Thinking Faith 16 October 2009.

 

Michael Hurley SJ, Our Ecumenical Hopes: Where Are They Now? In Thinking Faith. 18 January 2008.

 

Paul D. Murray, Dialogue and the Church –Part One, In Thinking Faith. 12 August 2008.

 

Paul D. Murray, Dialogue and the Church –Part Two, In Thinking Faith. 18 August 2008.

 

Paul D. Murray, Dialogue and the Church –Part Three, In Thinking Faith. 26 August 2008.

 

T. P. Rausch SJ, Where is Ecumenism Today? In Ecumenism and Ignatian Spirituality, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 2016, pg. 9-19.

 

 

VIDEO INPUT to learn more

Nicholas Denysenko, Ecumenical Theology

 

Week 5: Wednesday 7 December 2022

If you wish to learn about Ignatian Approaches to Spiritual Life

 

Nick Austin SJ, Roger Dawson SJ, The Consolation of Character Strength in Ignatian Spirituality and Positive Psychology. In The Way. 53/3 July 2014, pg. 7-21.

 

Roger Dawson SJ, Psychological Foundations of Interior Movements. In The Way. 59/3 July2020, pg. 7-14.

 

 

 

VIDEO INPUT to learn more

Eric Clayton, Cannonball Moments: An Ignatian Approach to Telling Your Story.

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Tutors

Fr Ladislav Šulik SJ

Fr. Ladislav Šulik SJ STL MA studied philosophy and theology in Slovakia and at the Gregorian University, Rome. He was ordained in 2010 and is Chaplain at the London Jesuit Centre. His particular academic interest is in the central Christian belief of the Trinity. His pastoral ministry has led him to work in spirituality, retreat giving, spiritual accompaniment at various Jesuit retreat houses and Spirituality centres.

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