{"id":101197,"date":"2023-06-22T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/spiritual-exercises-lourdes-after-this-week-of-exercises-i-reaffirm-it-the-heart-is-so-well-made-that-it-needs-its-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:00:16","slug":"spiritual-exercises-lourdes-after-this-week-of-exercises-i-reaffirm-it-the-heart-is-so-well-made-that-it-needs-its-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/spiritual-exercises-lourdes-after-this-week-of-exercises-i-reaffirm-it-the-heart-is-so-well-made-that-it-needs-its-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Exercises | Lourdes: \u201cAfter this week long retreat I can tell you: the heart is so well made that it needs its time to connect\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lourdes G\u00f3mez is a young woman from Valencia, Spain, who is studying her fifth year of medicine. She is a Regnum Christi member and has participated, along with three other young women, a consecrated woman, and four young men, in spiritual exercises preached by Fr. Jaime Rodr\u00edguez, LC, during Holy Week. She tells us that she has received many lights and that \u201cone of them has been gaining clarity to choose and desire what best directs me to the purpose for which I have been created, which is to give of myself, because I, and each of us, are a gift!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lourdes is from the young women\u2019s section of Valencia. She values the importance of silence as one of the fruits of these weeklong spiritual exercises: \u201cThis has helped me greatly, but above all, it taught me much. It is so necessary for everything\u2026 but truly fundamental for prayer!\u201d Lourdes also speaks to us about disconnecting from the internet and explains to us that \u201cin the hyper-digitalized world in which we live, where everything goes so fast, sometimes we young people are afraid of missing out by not \u2018always being connected,\u2019 but if you don\u2019t order your priorities and your time, life leaves you behind!\u201d Ultimately, \u201cthese were days when I have been able to be alone with Jesus and put my life at his feet\u2014all my worries, fears, desires, dreams, everything\u2014and let him work in me!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35756\" style=\"width: 3596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-2@2x-1.png\" class=\"wp-image-35756 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35756 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-2@2x-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><\/noscript> Lourdes, with her group of ECYD girls in Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Have you gone on retreat before? What did these weeklong spiritual exercises bring you as opposed to weekend retreats?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my high school (Cumbres School Valencia) and Regnum Christi, I have always had the opportunity to do weekend spiritual exercises every year.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to weekend spiritual exercises, I have realized that this time is necessary to enter into harmony and so to reach a true encounter with Jesus, to immerse yourself in his mysteries, and to let that transform our lives. As St. John Paul II told us: \u201cGod has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth\u2014in a word, to know himself\u2014so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.\u201d And this requires time to order our lives, desires, choices, and the purpose for which each one of us has been created around this encounter.<\/p>\n<p><em>They have been a \u201clittle school\u201d: now it is time to share and put into practice everything we have learned, like the Apostles, who didn\u2019t stay all twelve together forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you feel like returning to your daily life, or did you prefer to stay on that Tabor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had never experienced a retreat this long, but after this week, I can tell you: the heart is so well made that it needs time to make itself available, to disconnect from so many \u201cnoises\u201d that lurk in our daily life, to connect and enter into prayer little by little. I have realized that we just have to offer ourselves, and he does the rest!<\/p>\n<p>I arrived very eager because I felt that I needed these days of intimacy with Jesus, and they have been days of many graces: \u201cIt is good to be here!\u201d I thought that was the feeling Peter, James, and John had when Jesus brought them up the mountain. But, as Fr Jaime told us well, these days have been \u201creal life,\u201d not when each one returns to their city and home, because these days are when the soul has had the most clarity and the least noise and distractions. These are days in which we have truly been able to live in the light of the Truth and illumine our lives with that light, and that is totally how it has been!<\/p>\n<p>As Father also told us, these days have been a \u201clittle school\u201d: now it is time to share and put into practice everything we have learned, like the Apostles, who didn\u2019t stay all twelve together forever; rather, Jesus sent them into the world with the Holy Spirit. Now it\u2019s our turn!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35757\" style=\"width: 3596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-3@2x.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35757 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-3@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><\/noscript> Sharing their experiences after spiritual exercises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How do you handle silence and living without social media?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The truth is that, in spite of being a little scared of so many days of silence at the beginning, I now seek it in my daily life! Silence has helped me greatly, but above all, it taught me much. It is so necessary for everything\u2026 but mainly fundamental for prayer! Sometimes we complain that Jesus doesn\u2019t speak to us, but Jesus ALWAYS speaks. It\u2019s just impossible to listen to him if we don\u2019t seek out that silence. These days revolved around prayer, and now I ask myself every day, \u201cHow am I only going to leave the day\u2019s leftover \u2018crumbs\u2019 for prayer?\u201d Prayer is an encounter; you can\u2019t improvise it!<\/p>\n<p>Something else they recommended to us was to turn off our phones and social media. I thought, \u201cAll or nothing!\u201d The night we arrived, I sent an email to change an internship at the university, and I turned it off for nine whole days. It was amazing! In the hyper-digitalized world in which we live, where everything goes so fast, sometimes we young people are afraid of missing out by not \u201calways being connected,\u201d but if you don\u2019t order your priorities and your time, life loses you!<\/p>\n<p><em>They recommended us to turn off our phones and social media. I thought, \u201cAll or nothing!\u201d It was amazing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spiritual exercises are an opportunity to meditate, dialogue with God, consult him, and let him put light, love, forgiveness, and inspiration in your life. How do you live that experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These days have been a true gift! These were days when I have been able to be alone with Jesus and put my life at his feet\u2014all my worries, fears, desires, dreams, everything\u2014and let him work in me! Letting him be the one who gives light, clarity in the Truth, and great peace for each one, and asking him, like the Blessed Virgin, that my life be a \u201clet it be done to me\u201d for each of his plans!<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, having lived Holy Week with this recollection has been a true blessing and one more grace. I realized that everything\u2014his Passion, Death, and Resurrection\u2014is for me, for each one of us, to open for us the doors of heaven! My life has no meaning if it is not in light of his cross because I am worth no more than or less than the blood of Christ!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35758\" style=\"width: 3596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-4@2x.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35758 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Artboard-4@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3596\" height=\"2180\"><\/noscript> The participants in the exercises were accompanied by the novices during these days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Could you share with us a light that you had during these exercises? Is it going to change your life in some way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have received many lights, but one of them has been gaining clarity to choose and desire what best directs me to the purpose for which I have been created, which is to give of myself because I, and each of us, are a gift! So I desire a dedicated life, a life of service. Where? How? I don\u2019t know! But I\u2019m not worried because it is clear to me that my purpose is to arrive in heaven, and every day I ask for this trust and filial abandonment to my Father, who, as the Gospel says, knows what we need before we ask him and has even counted all the hairs of my head. Then what do I have to be worried about? Just living in the truth each day, letting him be the one to keep guiding me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Original article published in Spanish\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/regnumchristi.es\/ejercicios-espirituales-lourdes-despues-de-esta-semana-de-ejercicios-lo-reafirmo-el-corazon-esta-tan-bien-hecho-que-necesita-sus-tiempos\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lourdes G\u00f3mez is a young woman from Valencia, Spain, who is studying her fifth year of medicine. 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