Imaginative Contemplation

The Nativity at Night

Ignatius of Loyola · 1491–1556

Ignatius himself walked this road in prayer. Travel to Bethlehem, enter the cave, and become a humble servant at the side of the newborn Child and his mother.

St Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (composition of place, §47; colloquium, §54). Scripture: Luke 2:6–16, World English Bible.