In Part 2 Mark and Rex zoom in on the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola and his Examen prayer.The pair explore how the practices of a 16th century Spanish monk are more relevant today than ever.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host, Mark Moore

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and your co host Rex Gurney.

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There we go. And this is part two of our series on ancient Christian practices, right. And I'm really excited today because we get to kind of dive into a couple of these practices, particularly kind of going to kind of spend the episode with St. Ignatius,

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right. And he's someone that actually has informed the devotional life of both of us and so right.

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Yeah, really has and so it'll be nice. And so we kind of want to, you know, connect with, like, on last episode, we kind of talked about, yeah, what had informed our spiritual lives, the way disciplines came in the way these ancient Christian practices kind of spoke to us. And particularly Ignatius as spiritual exercises. Right, right. You know, we're a part of that, but I think it'd be great to for the listener to kind of, because we maybe have heard about St. Ignatius. You know, probably if you've been in the church, someone has maybe said it, you may have even heard, like the ignition exercise, especially if you've dabbled in disciplines, right. But we might not have kind of that backstory,

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and you know, stuff about church history is actually kind of confusing anyway, because one of the early early early church fathers was St. Ignatius, too, right? That's

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what Yeah, you're like Now which one? Which one? So, so, Rex, tell us which one are we talking about?

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We're talking about Ignatius, number two, not Ignatius. There's about 1500 years between the two of them, right, actually. And so Ignatius of Loyola is a Spaniard. And we were actually talking about this right before the podcast started that if you want an image in your head of the young, saying, well, he wasn't a saint. He had their young, Ignatius Loyola, um, think of the Princess Bride and Eagle Montoya because that actually was what the Loyola wanted to be born in a fairly wealthy Spanish family, kind of minor nobility. And he spent most of his early, early adulthood or, um, as sort of a co ta in the Spanish court. And he was one of those guys, you know, looked good ladies, man. All are really felt. really had a high opinion of himself. Yeah.

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I also read in his kind of a biography that he was of short stature. Exactly. So you appreciate that. I appreciate I aligned with Okay, St. Ignatius, and maybe even more vain. I don't Yeah, that's true.

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I understand, actually, to talk about his vanity. One thing that kind of was a major turning point in his life. It's sort of turned this vein cotpa into the founder of the Jesuits, actually, was the fact that he was at the siege of Pon Plummer. I think the French were actually be French. Yeah. And he was actually one of the main folks officers that the defenders of Pamplona were rallying around, and at least that's the story I've heard.

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Right. And this is around 1521, certain length

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and, and his leg is shattered by Cannonball. Oh, and Yeah, that'll slow you down pretty powerful. And it really did slow him down. And actually, I guess it's providential that is slowed him down, because he ends up surviving that but he goes into a long convalescence, basically at his sister's house, which is interesting, right. Yeah. And before we get to the only reading material that was available to him in his long convalescence, and he understand he wanted to actually get better and get back in the game, that was his whole purpose. Right with this. He had no idea that God was going to get a hold of him.

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Yeah, he was gonna get the same title later, man. He had no I was looking for other

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title. He was looking for other things. Exactly. And he actually had