This book is a collection of fifteen spiritual exercises for people who seek to experience God in everyday life with the help of Ignatian discernment. At times, life looks like a way of the cross. Pain is there, uninvited. Art and beauty have long been able to deepen our spirituality. By contemplating a work of art, we are invited to follow step by step the downward path of the disfigured Christ, who configures us in his glorious transfiguration. This Ignatian journey follows the steadfast rhythm of a bronze way of the cross, in which artist Werner Klenk has captured with astonishing and disarming power the essence of a Christian lifestyle made of encounters.
"More than mere devotional practice, this contemporary, existential, and artistic Way of the Cross is at once a guide to meditation and a path to encounter Christ in whom we are and find what we are searching for: a fullness of joy and life beyond our own darkness and our daily struggles."
Georges Ruyssen, SJ Pontificio Istituto Orientale Rome
"The uniqueness of An Ignatian Journey of the Cross: Exercises in Discernment is its holistic engagement of body, mind, and spirit with the Paschal Mystery of Christ as our own Christian Mystery as human persons. Daelemans employs Scripture, the text of the Exercises, original verse, a bronze relief-sculpture of an eminent German artist, and moving pieces of music to help incarnate a process of di
Paul A. Janowiak, SJ, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
"This is a wonderful book, which invites us on a journey with Jesus as he faces his most difficult and most glorious moments on his journey of the Cross. It is a tough and challenging journey-almost harrowing, yet intimate and beautiful-calling us to explore the depth of our own being and all of our relationships, not least with Jesus and with ourselves. This is a text I have and will use often fo
