C1. The Exercises, Christ’s Passion, and the Homeless

Presenter: Bill Creed, S.J., teaches graduate students half time at Loyola University Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies. He is the founder and chair of the board of the Ignatian Spirituality Project which attends to the spiritual life of those who are homeless, and is chaplain of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps-Chicago, where 45 volunteers serve 20 hours weekly in hands-on ministry with the poor.

The grace of the Third Week invites the exercitant “to ask for grief with Christ in grief, to be broken with Christ broken…” This workshop will explore concrete ways in which this grace is given as a consolation during a weekend retreat with those who are homeless.