Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me. Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward, save that of knowing that I do your will. Ignatius begins his Spiritual Exercises with The First Principle and Foundation, while this is not a formal prayer it has many characteristics of one. The Goal of our life is to live with God forever.
God, who loves us, gave us life. All the things in this world are gifts from God, Presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.
As a result, we appreciate and use all these gifts of God Insofar as they help us to develop as loving persons. But if any of these gifts become the center of our lives, They displace God And so hinder our growth toward our goal. In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance Before all of these created gifts insofar as we have a choice And are not bound by some obligation.
We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, Wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one.
For everything has the potential of calling forth in us A deeper response to our life in God. This Novena for Racial Justice offers thoughtful accompaniment among us: the Communion of Saints, especially these 9 individuals who invite us to a special relationship.
But in at the request of the magistrates of Messina in Sicily, Ignatius sent five men to open a school for lay as well as Jesuit students. It soon became clear by requests from rulers, bishops and cities for schools that this work was truly one of the most effective ways to correct ignorance and corruption among the clergy and the faithful, to stem the decline of the Church in the face of the Reformation, and to fulfill the motto of the Society of Jesus, " Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam ,"--to the greater glory of God.
This was clearly in keeping with one of Ignatius' first principles in choosing apostolates: all other things being equal, choose those apostolates that will influence those who have the most influence on others.
Maybe the best expression of this idea was in a letter he wrote about the founding of colleges in December of From then on, Ignatius helped to establish Jesuit schools and universities all over Europe and the world. It is probably true that the picture of Ignatius that most people have is that of a soldier: stern, iron-willed, practical, showing little emotion -- not a very attractive or warm personality.
Yet if this picture is exact, it is hard to see how he could have had such a strong influence on those who knew him. Luis Goncalves de Camara, one of his closest associates wrote,.
We regard a number of saints as great mystics but never think of Ignatius as one of them. We have recounted a few of the many visions and mystical experiences in his life. His holiness, however, did not consist in such, but in the great love that directed his life to do everything A. Ever since his student days in Paris, Ignatius had suffered from stomach ailments and they became increasingly troublesome in Rome.
In the summer of his health grew worse, but his physician thought he would survive this summer as he had done others.
Ignatius, however, thought that the end was near. On the afternoon of July 30th he asked Polanco, his secretary, to go and get the Pope's blessing for him, suggesting by this to Polanco that he was dying. Polanco, however, trusted the physician more than Ignatius and told him he had a lot of letters to write and mail that day.
He would go for the Pope's blessing the next day. Shortly after midnight Ignatius took a turn for the worse. Polanco rushed off to the Vatican to get the papal blessing, but it was too late. The former worldly courtier and soldier who had turned his gaze to another court and a different type of battle had rendered his soul into the hands of God. Francis Xavier. Ignatius' feast day is celebrated by the universal Church and the Jesuits on July 31, the day he died.
Biography of St. Ignatius Loyola Early Life of St. Ignatius Click for more information The Feast of St. Ignatius Ignatius Day is July Early Life of St. Conversion of St. Ignatius During the long weeks of his recuperation, he was extremely bored and asked for some romance novels to pass the time. The Experience of Manresa He continued towards Barcelona but stopped along the river Cardoner at a town called Manresa. The Return to School By now he was 33 years old and determined to study for the priesthood.
The Years As Superior General Ignatius, whose love it was to be actively involved in teaching catechism to children, directing adults in the Spiritual Exercises , and working among the poor and in hospitals, would for the most part sacrifice this love for the next fifteen years.
The Jesuits and Schools Perhaps the work of the Society of Jesus begun by Ignatius that is best known is that of education. Maybe the best expression of this idea was in a letter he wrote about the founding of colleges in December of From among those who are now merely students, in time some will depart to play diverse roles--one to preach and carry on the care of souls, another to government of the land and the administration of justice, and others to other callings.
Finally, since young boys become grown men, their good education in life and doctrine will be beneficial to many others, with the fruit expanding more widely every day. Gradually a whole circle of "Friends in the Lord," as they called themselves, formed around Ignatius.
What bonded them closely together was the fact that one after another they were led through the Spiritual Exercises. Most were guided by Ignatius himself.
In a deep sense, they all became "companions of Jesus" and companions of one another. Ignatius also shared with them his dream of going on mission to the Holy Land; yet this time he was a bit wiser and more practical. If the Holy Land dream fell through, they would go to Rome and put themselves at the disposition of the pope. The pope, as universal pastor, should know where the greatest needs were. They waited in Venice a whole year for a ship to take them to the Holy Land. As Providence would have it, just that one year, because of war between Venice and the Turks, no ship sailed.
So they went to Rome, and there they entered into an extended period of communal discernment. They were about to be sent all over Europe and all over the world. Spread out like that, how would they secure the bond among them? Their decision was to form themselves into a religious order. They called it the Company meaning the companionship or Society of Jesus. Outsiders disparagingly nicknamed them the " Jesuits " but the name caught-on and eventually was used by all alike.
Ignatius was elected their first leader. He declined after the first vote. He felt unworthy for the position because of the vanity and licentiousness of his earlier life and because he felt that others were more theologically knowledgeable.
After much discernment , he accepted the position and served until his death sixteen years later. As the Superior General, he sent companions all over Europe and around the world. He called them to "hurry to any part of the world where He wrote to high and low in church and state and to women as well as men. But most of these letters were to his Jesuit companions, thus forming a vast communication network of friendship, love, and care.
At the time of his death, there were 1, Jesuits , a good number of them involved in the 35 schools that had been founded. Twenty-five years later the number of schools rose to , and another 35 years after that, it approached In contrast to the ambitions of his early days, the fundamental philosophy of the mature Ignatius was that we ought to desire and choose only that which is more conducive to the end for which we are created - to praise, reverence, and serve God through serving other human beings.
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