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Spiritual Exercises Based on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 10.1 We have come to the end of the first development in the doctrinal section of the epistle to the Romans. Paul has set forth his thesis about God’s gospel and explained his understanding of justification by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. The divine attribute that dominated that first development was “the uprightness of God” (1:17). The task of the gospel was to reveal that divine quality and show how it has
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