The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Spiritual Exercises for Families took place on 7 and 8 September 2024 at the Pontifical Oratory of San Paolo in Rome.

On Saturday at 15.30, a panel discussion took place on “Responding to the desire of families for spirituality”, with recollections, testimonies and contributions.

On Sunday 4 pilgrimages in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, starting from the Church of the Gesù and ending in St Peter’s Square were organised. In recent years, as a CIS network, we have accompanied the development of this experience which, together with others, promotes the Ignatian spiritual experience with couples and families“, Fr Paolo Monaco, the Director, explains.

“This development highlights the need to interpret Ignatian spirituality from the point of view of the family couple. This point of view is in addition to that of priests, consecrated men and women and, of course, Jesuits.

We are slowly realising, not without resistance and blockages, that the experience of St. Ignatius can be understood in depth and in truth when all these points of view dialogue and live in communion”.