W.I.S.E.

Wisdom and Integration through the Spiritual Exercises

As a way to finding deeper meaning and purpose in their vocation and Seeking Integration and Wisdom (Xavier's understanding of its Jesuit Catholic educational identity), faculty engage in Ignatius Loyola's individual and group prayer of the Spiritual Exercises

Meditations

First Semester - Fall 2016
Week 1 - Our Life Story (8/26 - 9/1)
Week 2 - Exploring Story in Depth (9/2-8)
Week 3/4 - Harmony/Balance (9/9-15)
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: "WEEK ONE"
Week 5 - Disorder of Sin (9/16-22)
Week 6/7 - Personal Disorder/Patterns (9/23-29)
Fall Pause/Repetition (9/30-10/6)
Week 8 - Forgiving Mercy (10/7-13)
Week 9 - Healing Mercy (10/14-20)
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: "WEEK TWO"
Week 10/11 - Love's Invitation/Our Response (10/21-27)
Week 12 - God's Compassion (10/28-11/3)
Week 13/14 - God Prepares/Announces the Way (11/4-10)
Week 15 - His Birth (11/11-17)
Thanksgiving Pause/Repetition (11/18-24)
Week 16 - Hidden Life (11/25-12/1)
Week 17 - Two Ways of Desiring (12/2-8)
Winter Long Pause/Repetition (12/9-1/12)

Second Semester-Spring 2017
Week 18 - Three Kinds of Responses (1/13-19)
Week 19 - Nazareth to Jordan Baptism (1/20-26)
Week 20 - Temptations in the Desert (1/27-2/2)
Week 21 - Jesus Calls Others/Me (2/3-9)
Week 22 - Jesus' Message (2/10-16)
Week 23 - Jesus Heals (2/17-23)
Week 24/25 - J Confronts Leaders/WaterLightLife (2/24-3/2)
Spring Pause/Repetition (3/3-9)
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: "WEEK THREE"
Week 26 - Jesus Heals Disciples' Blindness (3/10-16)
Week 27 - Jesus Gives His Body and Blood (3/17-23)
Week 28/29 - Jesus' Suffering/Death (3/24-30)
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: "WEEK FOUR"
Week 30/31/32 - J. Risen/with Us/for Mission (3/31-4/6)
Easter Pause/Repetition (4/7-13)
Week 33 - Gods' Love, Our Response (4/14-20)
Week 34 - The Path before Us (4/21-27)

Resources

BibleGateway.com hosts 150+ translations
Guidelines for group interaction
Higher Education in a Catholic Context
Optional Summer Gospel Read
Posture and Atmosphere at Prayer
Teaching That Transforms
The Spiritual Exercises - what are they?

 

Participants (2020-21)

Adam Clark - Theology (co-facilitator)
Laney Bender Slack - Middle Childhood Education
Hem Raj Joshi - Mathematics
Mina Lee - Management and Entrepreneurship
Esmeralda Nastase - Mathematics
Haider Raad - Physics
Thomas Strunk - Classics (co-facilitator)
Teresa Young - Education
David Zoogah - Management and Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

 

 

Participants (2018-19)

Christine Anderson - History
Rashmi Assudani – Management & Entrepreneurship
Adam Clark – Theology
Waleed El-Ansary - Theology
Anna Ghee - Education
Tiffany Isaac – Sport Studies
Natalie Jacovkis - Spanish
Hema Krishnan - Management & Entrepreneurship
Anas Malik – Political Science
Linda Schoenstedt - Sport Studies
David Yi - Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participants (2016-17)

Adam Clark - Theology
Thomas Knestrict - Education
Dennis Long - CPS / Social Work
Tom Merrill - Arts and Innovation, co-facilitator
Linda Schoenstedt - Sport Studies
George Traub - Mission and Identity, program director
Shelly Webb - Finance
Kathy Winterman - Education, co-facilitator