Book No. : 2082216570 Name : DISCOVERING YOUR PERSONAL VOCATION - The Search for Meaning through the Spiritual Exercises Category : SPIRITUALITY Author : HERBERT ALPHONSO SJ Publisher : Paulist Press Price : $81.00 No. of page : 74 Description : Whe Davie was sixteen years old, he traveled with his father to Bombay. As they left the train station, David tripped over a mother and her baby who were sleeping in the mud. On that day he felt' all there' and he knew that his essence had something to do with healing home lessness..... "For the next many years, he made several retreats according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. As the Exercise recommend, David would ask himself when he had felt closest to God, and he always recalled the train station in Bombay, Significantly, his moment of greatest closeness to God was also his moment of feeling 'all there' within himself... "Today David spends his time on tasks that help the homeless and are therefore rewarding for him but, even more importantly, because he is living in accord with the God-given meaning of his life, he has frinterior resource for giving and receiving love... "During the centuries since St. Ignatius wrote the Spiritual Exercises, they have become the most widely used process for discernment in the Christian world. Yet, the genius of the Exercises is often not fully appreciated. Many people are under the impression that that the Exercises help us to discern is our state in life or other major decisions. However, David's experience confirms Herbert Alphonso's belief that the true purpose of the Exercises is to help us remember our real name, or 'personal vocation'....