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1. Purpose of the exercises and true conversion 2. Right intention and the search for truth 3. Attention and reflection in meditations 4. Concrete decisions and resolutions 5. Faithfulness to resolutions and review 6. Spiritual direction and sincerity 8. Silence, recollection, and mortification of the senses 9. Spirit of prayer and perseverance 10. Memory and faithfulness after the exercises 11. Vigilance against spiritual laxity 1. Purpose of the exercises and true conversion – Do I truly want to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52396,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52404","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52413,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52404\/revisions\/52413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>– Do I truly want to reform my life, or am I just looking for a nice experience without changing?
\n– Am I willing to leave sin behind and accept what God asks of me?
\n– Am I inwardly resisting conversion?
\n– Am I entering the exercises with a desire for conversion, or have I come to rest?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Am I doing the exercises for God or for other reasons\u2014habit, duty, emotions?
\n– Am I truly trying to understand what I need to change from now on?
\n– Am I looking for my faults and the virtues I need to practise?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I listen to the meditations with interest?
\n– Do I try to understand what is being said to me?
\n– Do I get distracted or listen half-heartedly?
\n– After the meditation, do I reflect on what I have heard and draw practical conclusions for my life?
\n– Do I move from one meditation to another without dwelling on what has struck me?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Are my resolutions concrete and practical, not vague or generic?
\n– Do I write them down and bring them to prayer, without procrastinating?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I remember the resolutions from past exercises? Have I put them into practice?
\n– Do I keep falling into the same mistakes?
\n– Do I see concrete progress in my life?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I take advice from my spiritual guide, speaking with sincerity?
\n– Do I avoid confrontation out of pride or do everything on my own without guidance?
\n7. Generosity and detachment
\n<\/strong>– Am I generous in my decisions and do I truly give myself to God, without holding anything back for myself?
\n– Do I set aside useless occupations and distractions to safeguard the time dedicated to God?
\n– Am I looking for distractions?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I observe external and internal silence, avoiding useless words and voluntary distractions?
\n– Do I guard what I look at and listen to, without giving in to useless curiosity?
\n– Do I disturb others, not respecting the recollection of those who wish to pray?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I pray with commitment and offer small sacrifices to live the exercises well?
\n– Do I carry on with the exercises to the very end, without getting tired halfway through or reducing my effort as the days go by?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I continue to meditate on the truths that have struck me and revisit my notes and resolutions?
\n– Do I not immediately forget what I have received and not let the fire that was lit die out?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– When I notice a spiritual decline, do I look for its cause and try to correct what is wrong?
\n– Do I let myself slip into lukewarmness or put off returning to a more fervent life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"