Fr. Ed Broom, OMV: 10 Weeks to Spiritual Advancement with St. Ignatius

By Fr. Ed Broom, OMV, Catholic Exchange, April 20, 2026

Fr. Ed Broom, OMV is a member of the religious order Oblates of the Virgin Mary, priest, speaker, author, radio talk show host, and retreat master. He was ordained to the priesthood by Pope St. John Paul II in 1986. He serves as Associate Pastor at St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Hawaiian Gardens, CA. …

Fr. Ed Broom signing his book,
10 Weeks to Spiritual Advancement

About twenty years ago, I launched a program for daily life that has since changed thousands of lives—one based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Years later, I still frequently encounter people grateful for having gone through this ten-week program, as it radically transformed their ways of thinking, deciding, acting—in fact, their total way of living and being.

Consequently, I decided, with the help of a team of wonderful collaborators, to format and articulate this work in book form, Ten Weeks to Spiritual Advancement, scheduled for release in mid-April 2026.

So what are the Spiritual Exercises, and what are the steps towards this transformed way of living?

From the very outset of the text itself, St. Ignatius succinctly explains what the Spiritual Exercises are and their primary purpose: …