With the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola celebrated today, July 31, the Jesuit university Ateneo de Manila held its annual Ignatian Festival this month. And a constant source of inspiration and guidance for Jesuits and their institutions worldwide is the eight-day or month-long retreats called the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius.

The believer undergoing the Exercises is directed to ask and even beg the Lord for the grace of interior knowledge of the Lord, so that by knowing the Lord more intimately, he may be able to love the Lord more dearly, and so to follow him more closely. Thus, the exercitant faces the question of Jesus to his disciples: ‘Who do you say that I am?’.

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