What Does “Spiritual Exercises” Mean in the Bible?
A few days of silence and prayer to learn what God wants. Saint Ignatius of Loyola wrote them.
A detail
- In the Bible: Jesus invited his disciples to go away with him to a deserted place to rest a while.
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 6:31; Luke 6:12
What the Bible says
Mark 6:31
And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much as time to eat.
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius”