The spiritual exercises are even available online. At the Office for Collaborative Ministry at Creighton, Alexander and Maureen Waldron developed the 34-week program for the Web site, which they report is attracting close to a thousand visitors a day. Larry Gillick, a place where retreatants can share their experiences of the online retreat and several links to related sites. Listening to the Spirit Whether they make the exercises online or off, retreatants are urged to bring their imagination and all their senses to their contemplation of specific moments in Jesus life. David Fleming, author of a contemporary translation of the exercises.
People think of Ignatian prayer as meditative.
A theologian who writes about geography and the sacred, Belden Lane said Ignatius brings both a poetic imagination and a keen understanding of place to the prayers he prescribes. Meditations on the Nativity and other moments in Jesus life bring exercitants into the gospel story and make it their story as well. You go there. You work through the five senses. You hear the hornets in the cave, you see the straw thrown over the mud, you smell the urine of the animals.