Principle and Foundation
Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. (Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 23)
In the mind of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, one of the most efficacious tools for drawing closer to God, to renounce the reality of sin and its consequences is the meditation upon what are called The Last…