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The Spiritual Exercises

OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST OUR LORD FROM TWELVE TO THIRTY YEARS · 45 of 91

The Spiritual Exercises

English, translated by Elder Mullan — The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, translated by Elder Mullan, 1914

St. Luke writes in the second Chapter [51, 52].

First Point. First: He was obedient to His parents: “He advanced in wisdom, age and grace.”

Second Point. Second: It appears that He exercised the trade of carpenter, as St. Mark shows he means in the sixth chapter. “‘Perhaps this is that carpenter? ‘“