| Summary: | The article proposes to subject the text of the Spiritual Journal of St Ignatius to linguistic analysis. Ignatius always deliberately avoided linguistic devises which would convey but a vague idea of his spiritual experience; on the contrary he put to full use all the resources of common language. The mystical dimension of his Journal is all the more striking. To express it, words and linguistic structures fall short; something new must come to the fore. This new element is manifest in the use of the term «loquela» which shows up unexpectedly in the Journal's entry for Sunday 11th May. Surrounded by a semantic field of a musical type, the term is usually inserted within the time of the liturgical celebration. To attempt to translate this «loquela», it would seem that Ignatius seeks to make use of all the resources of language in addressing God and that God's answer is of a non-linguistic nature. The «loquela» and the divine «visitation» are the only «spiritual answers» God grants to Ignatius.
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