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Five months after Ignatius’s death on July 31, 1556, Jerómino Nadal gave two talks to Jesuit scholastics in the Collegio Romano. The talks came at the request of Diego Laínez, who served as the vicar general of the Society of Jesus following the death of Ignatius. Nadal explains, in the following excerpts, to the men […]

In 1543, Pierre Favre provided the following instructions to two Spanish royal chaplains who had joined the Society of Jesus the year before. Favre had sent the new Jesuits on pilgrimage as part of their formation. The following instructions reveal much about how and why Jesuits conducted pilgrimages just three years into their order’s existence.

The Jesuits of the Province of Turin met in Genoa in December 1973, in order to make preparations for upcoming 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. At this meeting, Pedro Arrupe first delivered the following remarks on “the simplicity of life,” which he considers “the measure of our spirit of poverty, the practical

Less than three months after writing a letter to the entire Society of Jesus to explain his actions, Superior General Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at a Mass to renew the Jesuits’ devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1972. Appearing after selections of Arrupe’s address below is the text of the Act

Based on an address he delivered at the conclusion of the Congregation of Procurators in Rome in October 1970, Pedro Arrupe issued the following letter to the provincials of the Society of Jesus. The letter articulates the Jesuits’ four “apostolic priorities,” as determined by their superior general. The four prioritized areas are, in order, theological

Pedro Arrupe wrote the following reflections on the importance of Mary and Marian devotion to Ignatius and the Society of Jesus for a book of Jesuit saints and blesseds. The version that appears below was published by Jesuit Sources in a collection of letters and addresses of the superior general. For more sources from Arrupe,

Pedro Arrupe delivered the following message to the 1976 General Assembly of the Executive Council of World Federation to celebrate the service provided by the Christian Life Community (CLC). The CLC is an international group of lay Christians that receives inspiration from Jesuit spirituality and receives guidance from Jesuits themselves. Arrupe focuses his remarks on

The 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus ended on March 7, 1975, having met for 96 days and approved 16 decrees. Arguably the most important of these decrees was Decree 4: “Our Mission Today,” one of four decrees focused on the “Society’s Response to the Challenges of Our Age.” The Jesuits’ Superior General,

Pedro Arrupe delivered a stirring and personal address to the celebration hosted by the Eucharistic Youth Movement in September 1979. In the edited text below, Arrupe provides examples of his own experiences of the Eucharist—from witnessing a miracle at Lourdes to witnessing the aftermath of the atomic explosion in Hiroshima. “Our Lord, through contact with

“Helping the Christian to be free rather than fearful in the face of Marxism” is the message Pedro Arrupe delivers in the following letter to the 5th Synod of Catholic Bishops in 1977. For the Jesuits’ superior general, Marxism is “impossible” for the Catholic Church to ignore, and he endorses a “practical kind of catechesis”