| The companion supports the retreatant, seeking to keep him or her attentive to God's leading and guiding the retreatant through questions, suggestions and shared experience. |
| Many times issues surface that the retreatant had not intended to work with or might even have forgotten. |
| There is also a series of questions upon which the retreatant should reflect. |
| Ignatius calls the retreatant to direct collaboration with the work of the Trinity in the world. |
| The spiritual upshot is to put before a retreatant a costly God-centeredness willing to stand up to interior blockages to God's individual guidance. |
