is as focused as any one `point' of the Three Classes of Persons? Professional teachers will tell you that students often miss the point when, however clear, a teacher's presentation requires no real personal engagement by the students. They seem to get the insight and grasp the point more effectively when they have to wrestle with the material. Could this principle not also be true when directees are introduced to the concepts and technical language of the Exercises? For the directee who is educated, has leadership potential, and is properly disposed, the Ignatian text can become a tool of spiritual leadership and discernment. After the Exercises journey is over, his familiarity with the literal text will help him reflect on, and hopefully understand, his own personal experiences according to a traditionally accepted and a more universal religious language. Thus his varied experiences during the Exercises journey will not be simply "good experiences" with some generalized understanding and some sense of what they "might" mean; they will be specified by a correct name as an experience of Indifference or Inordinate Attachment or `call' or Desolation or Consolation, etc. Later when he encounters other religious experiences in himself or in others, this use of the literal text will have become an instrument to help him think about, recognize, and make judgements about these experiences. Also for those directees who want to develop their ministry skills more professionally in a variety of settings, the literal text will serve as a common framework giving