The Spiritual Exercises

Describe them to us.  Maybe you can follow with some examples.

Well, everyone thinks of the Exercises first of all as a 30-day retreat, but they do not have to be that long.  Iñigo gave one person the whole exercise in 16 days.

What do you do?  Well, ordinarily you get to know someone who gives Exercises, and you ask to talk with them.  A good director will try to get to know the exercitant well before going off somewhere.

You don't have to go out into the country, just be by yourself without people, phones, faxes and so forth.  You try to put everything aside so you park all of your problems.  Then you give yourself to an organised format of praying through the truths of revelation.