Spiritual Exercises Based on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Biblia.com)

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Spiritual Exercises, based on Scripture passages of Jesus’ life and early Christian legends, were first introduced by Ignatius of Loyola in the sixteenth century. Joseph A. Fitzmyer notes that Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, while beneficial, lack teaching on Pauline texts and the Holy Spirit. To remedy this, Fitzmyer recasts the Pauline text of Romans into the form of 24 meditations, making it...

possession by Christ himself. Paul is trying to formulate the way Christ Jesus should dominate the life of a Christian. That is the goal for which one strives, “the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.” One reaches, then, “perfect maturity” when one is possessed by Christ, when Christ takes possession of the Christian. Yet Paul knows that some individuals may have a “different attitude,” an inordinate attachment in life preventing them from attaining such a goal, preventing them from being

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