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Road on the Navajo Reservation

Preparatory Phase to the Spiritual Exercises

CONTENTS

First Phase: Reforming
Introduction
The method and the First Exercise: existential experience of the history of salvation
Second Exercise: our personal salvation history
Third Exercise
Fourth Exercise: a summary
Fifth Exercise: meditation on hell
Additions

The Kingdom of Christ

Third Phase: Confirming
Introduction
The First Period
First Exercise: The Last Supper
Second Exercise: The Gethsemane
The Second and following periods
Guidelines with Regard of Eating

Fourth Phase: Transforming
Introduction
First Exercise:the appearance of the risen Jesus to his mother
Notes on how to proceed

Second Phase
Introduction
First Period
   First Exercise: the Incarnation
Second Exercise: the Nativity
   Third, Fourth and Fifth Exercises
Second and Third Period and the introduction to the consideration of different states of life

Fourth Period
   Two Standards: Conflicting value-systems defining our way
   First repetition of the Two Standards: Enneagram Exercise
   Second repetition of the Two Standards: a Summary
   Three Types of Attitude

Fifth and following Periods
Three Degrees of the Love of God
   Arriving to a Decision

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     Contemplation to Attain the Love of God

      Appendix A: Three Methods of Prayer
      Appendix B: Mysteries of the Life of Jesus
      Appendix C: Guidelines for the Discernment - Guidelines for Dealing with Material Goods - Notes Concerning Scruples - Guidelines for the Right Attitude toward the Church or Sense of Church