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Conference 15-19 August 2016 Hinsley Hall Leeds Where are the Exercises taking us now? A conference for those involved in the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises The Conference will seek to explore this important question by focusing on three aspects arising in the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises. • Current Culture: Nikolaas Sintobin SJ will explore engaging with younger generations and the internet – social media and spiritual development. • Ageing: Bishop Emeritus Brian Noble will discuss the Ignatian insights that can contribute to the spiritual needs that can surface in the increasing longevity of our population. • Social Edges: Anne-Marie Paulin-Campbell and Puleng Matsaneng will offer their experience of using Ignatian ‘adaptation’ in crossing cultural and racial divides in South Africa. Booking and further information www.thepilgrim.org.uk admin@thepilgrim.org.uk
I FOREWORD T IS NOT UNUSUAL, among the New Year’s resolutions made by Christians, to find some related to prayer. People hope to pray more regularly, or for longer, or with greater attentiveness. Nor is it unusual, as with most such resolutions made at this time of year, to find them abandoned and forgotten after just a few days. Yet the desire to live a better life of prayer does not go away, and seems somehow to be hardwired into the spirituality of the average follower of Christ. This issue of The Way looks at both what it means to pray and who it is that is doing the praying. Anne Mouron takes us back to the late Middle Ages, describing a manual to aid monastic prayer assisted by very contemporary-looking illustrations and diagrams. Matt Kappadakunnel outlines how, when seeking to discover ways of praying in a very busy life, finding suitable places may be as important as being able to set aside an appropriate amount of time. Meanwhile, if working for social justice seems at first sight to be at the opposite end of the spectrum of Christian living from contemplative prayer, Meredith Secomb suggests that these two approaches can be seen as complementary rather than competing. Sometimes negative experiences block that road to God that is opened up by prayer. A factor common to Christianity and Judaism is the feeling of God’s absence, and the desire to make some sense of it. In Christian spirituality one of the chief exponents of this quest for understanding is the Carmelite friar St John of the Cross. He called the experience of God’s seeming absence the ‘dark night of the soul’, and Louis Roy here shows the continuing relevance of his analysis. As a practising psychotherapist for the past three decades, Peter Wilcox has had plenty of opportunity to see how some people are able to make use of the sorrowful aspects of their lives to grow in fruitfulness, and applies his insights to faith development. Few events of the last century can have been more challenging to faith in a good and caring God than the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pedro Arrupe, who would later become Superior General of the Jesuits, survived the first of these bombings and tended its victims. James Menkhaus draws lessons from his experience, seventy years on. Strictly speaking, prayer can never be merely a solitary activity, linking us as it does not simply with God but with all those others who have The Way, 55/1 (January 2016), 7–8
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