Having - hopefully - made the theological case for contemplation (as St. Ignatius of Loyola describes it), in this episode our pal, Jon Saur, gives a short example of the practice.
This sermon was preached on Palm Sunday 2015 and thus uses the traditional story of Jesus's "triumphal entry" into Jerusalem as the gospel text to be contemplated.
If a short refresher is helpful, the goal of Ignatian contemplation is encounter, not "exegesis." That is to say, in contemplation we read the scripture...
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