The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, (composed from 1522-1524) are a brief set of Christian meditations, prayers and mental exercises, divided in four thematic 'weeks' of variable length, designed to be carried out over a period of 28 to 30 days. They were composed with the intention of helping the retreatant to discern Jesus in his life, leading then to a personal commitment to follow it.

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Father Dorian Llywelyn, S.J., who teaches Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, leads us in a lively and richly-illustrated consideration of Ignatius. Ignatius is often seen as cold and calculating, but here we meet the real man whose passionate love for God helped re-energize a demoralized post-Reformation Catholic Church. Narrated by Richard Leonard, S.J.