Meditation and Contemplation

October 1, 2008
No Christian saint has ever been more mindful of method, or more aware of the everyday Christian's practical needs, than St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises were a kind of plan book for closeness to God through imaginative identification, that is, "contemplation." Gallagher ("The Discernment of Spirits") rightly points out that Ignatius's method can also be used for contemplation's reflective counterpart, meditation. This brief, practical book is bursting with examples and includes a comparative outline of contemplative practices. For most collections.

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