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Moment By Moment: A Retreat for Everyday Life Authors: Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ & Eugene F. Merz, S.J. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, 2000 Introduction: Our lives are given to us moment by moment by God who is gracious, faithful, and energetically creative in interacting with us. We give our response to God moment by moment in the midst of the ordinary events of our lives. Moment by Moment is a guide for reflection and prayer as one makes a daily, particular, life-response to God. The structure of the book is reflective of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a sixteenth-century text containing a variety of prayer experiences intended to occasion a conversion of heart and mind so that a person may follow Jesus with greater faith, love, and freedom. Ignatius first discovered the reality of this conversion experience in his own life and later in the experience of his followers and friends. In light of that, we hope that this small book will also give people already familiar with the Ignatian tradition of spirituality a fresh and prayerful way of entering into the spiritual experience that is at the heart of Ignatian spirituality. Table of Contents: Prelude I Moment 1 Moment by Moment Moment 2 Listening to God Moment 3 Longing for God Moment 4 Love by God Moment 5 Free to Respond Moment 6 Turning to God Replaying the Moments I Prelude II Moment 7 The Reality of Sin Moment 8 Blinded by Sin Moment 9 The Lesson of Death Moment 10 The Tender Mercy of God Replaying the Moments II Prelude III Moment 11 Ready and Alert to Answer God's Call Moment 12 "The Word Was Made Flesh and Dwelt Among Us" Moment 13 "God So Loved the World ... " Moment 14 The Ordinary Days in Life Moment 15 My Identity in Christ Moment 16 Call and Discipleship bMoment 16 This Amazing Man, Jesus Moment 18 My Personal Vocation Moment 19 Cultures and Choices Moment 20 My Responses and Choices Moment 21 Decisions in My Life Moment 22 The Decisions of Jesus Replaying the Moments III Moment 23 "When You Do This, Remember Me" Moment 24 Faithful Love in Suffering Moment 25 Companions in Suffering Moment 26 A Suffering World Moment 27 Waiting in Hope Replaying the Moments IV Moment 28 A New Dawn Moment 29 Christ the Consoler Moment 30 Peace and Promises Moment 31 In Service of Others Moment 32 Graced by God Gathering the Graced Moments< /font> |