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Title: Ignatian Spiritual Warrior Training for the Humanities


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Ignatian Spiritual Warrior Training for the
Humanities
Mr. Christian J. Cashman Fairfield College Prep
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CONTEXT Globalization of Superficiality
  • Average U.S. teen sends/receives 3,000
    texts/tweets per month Newsweek Jan. 12
  • 7 of college students elect Humanities majors
    (14 50 years ago) NY Times June 12
  • 21st Century has given us,
  • 1,000 miles wide 1 inch deep
  • Social Media Enough about me! What do you
    think of me?
  • Multi-tasking is dead! Digital Nation, PBS
    Frontline

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  • The first key to IGNATIAN reflection is
    unlocking the mystery of YOU!
  • The second is finding GOD in your search...and
    having your own unique experience.

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Reflection EXAMEN
  • In what ways has reflection worked well in your
    classroom?
  • In what ways has reflection not worked well in
    your classroom?
  • How do you hope to grow more in your personal
    professional reflective practice in the upcoming
    academic year?

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Ignatian Spiritual Warrior Training
  • 473 year old Jesuit tradition of
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Spirit

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Our Ignatian Way of Proceeding
  • Do you speak Ignatian?
  • Ratio Studiorum
  • Eloquentia Perfecta
  • A.M.D.G.
  • Cura Personalis
  • Magis
  • God in all things
  • Examen Discernment
  • 1st Principle Foundation
  • Men women for others
  • Grad _at_ Grad
  • (Fr. Traub, SJ, Xavier Univ.)

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Action The Ignatian Spiritual Warrior Methods
  • Beadle Birthdays (see Ratio)
  • Active, close reading (mark the text)
  • Socratic Seminar
  • Ignatian Reflection Journal Paper (Q1 Q4)
  • Examen Magis (weekly, quarterly, annually)
  • AMDG everywhere!
  • Model ALL of the above!

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Reflection Journal Sample
  • 8/31/12 Journal 1
  • The unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
  • Please take five minutes to
  • 1) Explain this quote in your own words and
  • 2) evaluate from your own experience the truth of
    this statement, and
  • 3) make any connections you can to St. Ignatius
    and his way of proceeding.
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  • 9/4/12 Journal 2
  • We are spiritual warriors, on a journey, a
    pilgrimage. However, the enemy we face is not
    out there somewhere. It is the enemy within.
    Paraphrase of Joseph Campbell
  • 1 )How is the internal spiritual warrior
    different from a warrior in the external world?
  • 2) Describe the potential enemy within and what
    it might represent in your life or experience.
  • 3) How might this image of the spiritual
    warrior connect to St. Ignatius spirituality or
    pilgrimage?
  • 9/6/12 Journal 3 Pilgrimage/Journey
  • 1) What is the nature of your pilgrimage journey
    this year?
  • 2) In what direction are you headed?
  • 3) If you were to compose a song, or choose a
    song you already know to describe the Junior year
    you hope for, what would it be?

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The Ignatian Spiritual Warrior MUST
  • Have a personal awakening MANRESA experience of
    ones own.
  • Seek the MAGIS every day not the perfect thing,
    but the better thing.
  • Develop spiritual courage indifference in the
    face of struggle success. (1st Principle
    Foundation)
  • Look for GOD in all things or at least the
    mystery in all thingsrealizing there is always
    something beyond our understanding (which we call
    God)
  • Finally do this work in the company of loyal
    companions, with brothers sisters who care
    about one another in communityan Ignatian
    Spiritual Warrior is never alone!

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Kindle other flames
  • Matthew 6
  • You are the light of the world. A city on a
    hill can not be hidden. Nor does one light a
    lamp and place it under a bushel basket. Just
    so, your light must shine before others so that
    they may see your good works glorify God.
  • Tokusan Yutan
  • After a long night of rigorous discussion, Master
    Yutan sent the young monk Tokusan out into the
    pitch blackness of night and handed him a candle
    to light his way. When young Tokusan stepped
    outside, Master Yutan (whew!) blew out the candle
    shut the door. It was at that moment that the
    young monk was enlightened!

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  • Thank you for sharing the gift of yourself with
    Jesuit Education!
  • A.M.D.G.
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