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The Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in the current tragic situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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@MISC{Sj_thethird,
author = {Emmanuel W. Lenge Sj},
title = {The Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in the current tragic situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
W hen I first made the Spiritual Exercises in the novitiate, a new kind of prayer based on intimate encounter with Jesus Christ and with myself became available to me. This prayer training revealed to me many faces of God: serious, tender, sad, frail, merciful. Surely I was discovering something new and I could envisage a new path, a priceless treasure towards which I am still travelling. The enthusiasm of the first days of my 30-day retreat – with its powerful and fruitful meditations such as the Principle and Foundation or the Two Standards, with all the fervour and the emotional thrust this entails – faded away abruptly during the Third Week, which I experienced as a demanding and scarcely joyful moment. I felt completely lost. After having answered to Christ´s Call as Eternal King, I could not recognize this person who was to be imprisoned and condemned, who would not defend himself from the charges brought against him, nor answer back those who insulted and despised him, who would die the death of a criminal, nailed practically naked to a cross. Luckily for me, this week was not very long, and the joy of the Risen Lord that invites the retreatant to love and to contemplate God in all creation restored to me the joy and
