Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

What Are the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises? 

The Spiritual Exercises is an intensive Retreat offered in the Archdiocese of Vancouver by the Jesuit Spirituality Apostolate with the blessing of the Archbishop.  It lasts almost 9 months.  It is individually directed (each participant has their own personal Retreat Director).  Thus, each person’s retreat is personalized and unique.

This Retreat focuses on facilitating one’s actual Experience of God–and a practicum of Discernment involving finding the Lord in the deepest areas of one’s soul.  By praying through one’s own life and the life of Christ, one experiences God’s Presence, Healing, and Call to salvation and vocation, including any major life decisions.

For information (& important dates): http://jsav.ca/ or registration, email coordinator@jsav.ca

Praying the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

(All meetings Online– due to Covid)

Application deadline: January 31, 2022     Registration fee: $100 (bursaries available).

Please note the following requirements:

This Retreat is a serious and significant commitment of time and energy. 

It is held in 2 Sections (1: May to mid-June; & 2: End of September to beginning of May)

Section 1:        (May – mid-June approx.) requirements include:

• daily: 1 hour and 15 minutes of prayer
• a weekly meeting with your Director
• a weekly instructional session (using Microsoft Teams and Skype) taught by Jesuit priest Fr. Richard Soo, S.J.:

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

2022: May 10, 17, 24, 31;  June 07, 14 (Tuesdays)

• a retreat day 9:00 am – 5:00 pm: Saturday, 2022 May 14

Section 2:        (End of September to beginning of May approx.) requirements include:

• daily: 1 hour and 15 minutes of prayer
• a weekly meeting with your Director,
• a monthly instructional session (using Microsoft Teams and Skype) taught by Jesuit priest Fr. Richard Soo, S.J.:

7:00 pm – 9 :00p.m.

Dates: 2022 – Sep 27, Nov 01, Nov 29; 2023 – Jan 03, Feb 14, Mar 21, May02 (Tuesdays)

*Note: Registration fee does not include honorariums for the spiritual director