In 1538, Doctor Pedro Ortiz made the Spiritual Exercises under the direction of Ignatius. Ortiz kept notes of these Exercises, and in them he writes, “Divine consolation may be lost in two manners: one is because of our own culpability through sin . . . and in the second manner, we may lose divine consolation of the soul without fault, since divine providence at times freely withdraws it from the soul, because of the many advantages and benefits of this, as will be said.”
