Men's Spiritual Exercises 2025, talk 3. On Dec 6.

From the Men's Spiritual Exercises 2025, Talk 1

Patron Saint of the Missions 

Human flourishing depends on leisure, understood correctly as resting in God. Dr. Michael Naughton deepened our understanding of leisure and how it requires a conversion of mind and attitude of the soul to receive. To assist us in this conversion, he grounds us in the philosophy of leisure and offers some practical tips for recovering our rest in God on Sundays.  

Fr. Patrick, PES, shared highlights of the inspiring lives of Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, showing how their everyday practice of heroic virtue points us to a higher vocation of holiness. 

On Saturday Sept 20, 2025

On Saturday June 21

On Saturday June 7

Fr. Pablo Menor, our founder, was a member of the Society of Jesus which St. Ignatius founded and a faithful spiritual son of this great saint. Like a good householder, “who brings out of his treasure both what is new and what is old” (Mt 13:52), Fr. Menor passed on to us, his spiritual children, the new and unique charism of our Institute along with many of the riches of Ignatian spirituality.
In the Catholic Advance, our spirituality is that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Properly speaking, what is Ignatian is our style: the way we do things and the approach we take both to our institutional and pastoral activities and also to the spiritual life itself. Consider these the principles which guide our efforts in attaining our goal of union with God through holiness.

The Catholic Advance is a spiritual family. Like any family, membership is not primarily based on activity, on “what you do.” It goes deeper. It is a question of identity, of a relationship created by God. Our belonging to the Movement, therefore, is not a function of how much we do as a member, but how deeply we identify with its mission and spirit. Likewise, just as our participation at Mass is not based on how loudly we sing or what active role we have in it, but rather on how closely we are united to Christ who offers Himself to the Father in the Eucharist, so too our participation in the Catholic Advance is not primarily gauged by how many events we attend or apostolates we take part in, but by how deeply we live the spirituality and principles of the Movement.