Spiritual Exercises and Ecological Conversion

The depletion of natural resources, the climate crisis and the extinction of species are some of the factors that are causing the destruction of our planet. At the political level, the measures taken seem to be slow and insufficient, thus showing the urgent need for the transformation of personal attitudes, i.e. an ecological conversion.
Taking this reality as its starting point, the International Symposium on Spiritual Exercises and Ecological Conversion 2024 seeks to "create a climate of listening, reflection and dialogue that will enable us to move forward in exploring the potential of the Exercises in the field of ecological conversion and transformation."
This initiative is one of the fruits of the past Symposium Mystagogies of the Exercises 500 years later, June 2022, where the organisers the St Ignatius Cave Spiritual Centre (CIEI), the Ignatian School of Spirituality (EIDES) and an Intercontinental Committee were commissioned to convene, on a biannual basis, a Symposium where a specific question from Ignatian mystagogy would be addressed.

The 2024 Symposium will take place at the Spiritual Centre of the Cave in Manresa from 10 to 16 June. The participants, most of whom accompany the Exercises, have responsibilities in the formation of Ignatian spirituality or direct Centres and Houses of Spirituality, will attend the keynote lectures in the morning and the group meetings and prayer sessions in the afternoon.
Both the lectures and the presentations will be given by people involved in one or other of the fields of ecology and ecological conversion. The first day will focus on the interconnectivity of all creation. The next day will focus on the awareness and reconciliation of personal and structural socio-ecological sin. The third day will present care for creation as a dimension of Christian discipleship. The fourth day will consider how the Divine is hidden during the Passion and the fifth and final day the silent power of the resurrection.
The full programme is available on the website online.covamanresa. Registrations are open for participation in the online mode, i.e. for the keynote speeches and the morning papers, and can be made on the aforementioned website.
The timetable for the online mode of the Symposium is from 11 to 15 June 2024. As in the previous edition, the languages of the papers will be Spanish and English, and simultaneous translation will be provided.

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