Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Your Purpose and Intention 1
Keeping a Journal 3
Annotations 5
Seventeen Basic Teilhardian Principles That Give Rise to the New Spiritual Exercises 13
The First Week 37
The Presence of God 37
The Way God Loves 39
The Principle and Foundation 47
The Thanksgiving Examen 49
The Positive Particular Examen 52
Introduction to the Meditations on Sin 54
Introduction to Social Sin 63
End of the First Week 72
The Second Week 73
The Call of the Kingdom 73
The Call of Jesus 81
The Incarnation 86
The Two Standards 96
Three Pairs of People 105
Four Levels of Service 110
Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan 115
The Temptations of Jesus in Desert 121
Parables of the Kingdom 130
The Woman Who Was a Sinner 136
A Different Kind of Fire 141
Discernment and Decisions 145
End of the Second Week 154
The Third Week 155
Perspective 155
The Passion and Death of Jesus 156
End of the Third Week 166
The Fourth Week 167
The Risen Christ Appears to Mary 169
Looking for the New Christ-the New Creation 171
No Limitations in the Risen Christ 172
From the Way of the Cross to the Way of the Resurrection 173
Being Sent-Individually and Collectively 174
Infused with the Divine Spirit 176
The Final Contemplation: Relating to the Father from within the Cosmic Christ 177
End of the Fourth Week 183
Appendices 185
A Steps in a Group Contemplation 185
B How to Choose Music for Prayer 188
C Dialogue Prayer 190
D Meditation-Eastern and Western 193
