Awakening Love : An Ignatian Retreat With The Song Of Songs

Ignatian spiritual director and priest Greg Cleveland, OMV draws the reader into a personal experience of Ignatian spirituality through embracing this often-ignored book of the Bible. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius have had a tremendous impact in the history of the Church, while the Song of Songs is the most sublime book of Scripture describing mystical union with God in prayer.

While both of those aspects of the book-Ignatian spirituality and the Song of Songs-may sound initially daunting, Fr. Cleveland makes them accessible, engaging, and ultimately very approachable.

You will emerge from the Spiritual Exercises more attuned to God’s presence and will in all the circumstances of your life. More conformed to Christ and his call, you’ll make better choices according to his values. The Exercises are geared to an apostolic life of the active person making choices to follow Christ in the Church and in the world.

Written following the format of a personal retreat, Awakening Love includes chapters tracing the themes of the Song of Songs as a very Christian prayer and meditation.