Ignatius Loyola: Week 11 Blog Post: The Spiritual Exercises in Pictures

Let me start by saying I didn't realize how tough this option would be. I put a good amount of thought and time into looking for these pictures, this post actually took me longer than any of the other ones. In the end here is what I came up with.

For Week 1, where there is a lot of contemplation on one's own sins, I wanted to show someone in thought. This man is clearly in deep thought and has a bit of a troubled look about him, as most people would while in such deep contemplation over sin.

Week 2 has a battleground theme, a battle between good and evil, a battle between God and the Devil for

your soul, so I decided to show a medieval battleground complete with standards.

This image depicts a man sharing in Jesus' suffering, and ultimately that is

the theme of Week 3, contemplating the Passion and taking part in Jesus the Man's suffering.

This is a picture of the Heart Reef, a part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Week 4 is about God's love and being atoned back to God. It is also about love being expressed in ways other than words, and like I talked about in my Week 10 post, I think God speaks and expresses his love to us through nature. Here is a perfect example that he does.