Companies in Grace: Directing the Spiritual Exercidses of St. Ignatus of Loyola

Spiritual Life, Winter 2000 by Jordan, Reg

Companions In Grace: Directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. By Marion Cowan, C.SJ., and John C. Futrell, SJ. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Resources. Pp. 249. Paper. $18.95

The authors provide a practical companion guide for directors of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Beginning with how one concretely helps a retreatant to prepare for an Ignatian retreat, the book then treats extensively each of the four weeks of the thirty-day Exercises. It also devotes a section to Ignatius's rules for discernment and for thinking with the Church.

-Regis Jordan, O.C.D.