Contemplation to Attain Love

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Contemplation to Attain Love is a concluding meditation in Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises that invites the practitioner to recognize and respond to God’s loving presence in all things.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian spiritual exercise
Ignatian contemplation
meditation
prayer practice
alsoKnownAs Contemplation to Attain Love
surface form: Contemplation for Attaining Love

Contemplation to Attain Love
surface form: Contemplation to Attain Divine Love
associatedWithOrder Society of Jesus
emphasizes God as giver of all gifts
interior freedom in responding to God
love expressed more in deeds than in words
reciprocal relationship of love between God and the person
focusesOn discernment of God’s action in creation
finding God in all things
gratitude for God’s gifts
offering oneself to God
hasAuthor Ignatius of Loyola
hasKeyConcept finding God in all things
gift and giver distinction
magis
total self-offering to God
historicalPeriod 16th century
includes consideration of God’s gifts in creation
consideration of God’s indwelling in creatures
consideration of God’s laboring in all things
consideration of all good and gifts as descending from above
meditative review of one’s life and blessings
offering prayer of self-oblation
influenced Jesuit approaches to discernment
contemporary retreat movements
modern Ignatian spirituality
intendedEffect deepening love of God
greater availability for God’s service
growth in gratitude
integration of prayer and daily life
originPlace Spain
partOf Spiritual Exercises
surface form: Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola
positionInWork Spiritual Exercises
surface form: conclusion of the Spiritual Exercises
primaryTheme recognition of God’s loving presence in all things
response of love to God
religiousFamily Christianity
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
textLanguage Spanish
usedIn 19th Annotation retreat (Spiritual Exercises in daily life)
30-day Spiritual Exercises retreat
Ignatian retreats

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Spiritual Exercises hasPart Contemplation to Attain Love
Contemplation to Attain Love alsoKnownAs Contemplation to Attain Love
this entity surface form: Contemplation for Attaining Love
Contemplation to Attain Love alsoKnownAs Contemplation to Attain Love
this entity surface form: Contemplation to Attain Divine Love