Sr. Teresa Rejadell was a Benedictine nun of the convent of Santa Clara in Barcelona. In this letter, Ignatius gives her detailed advice on the discernment of spirits, including the distinction between true and false humility (a favorite theme of Ignatius), evil under the appearance of good, and the proper treatment for scruples. His remarks […]
Ignatius on the Discernment of Spirits (1536) Read More »
The Irish Jesuit Archives has begun a new online catalogue, starting with the catalogue of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Offaly. Catalogues for two other collections are also now available: one for the Waterford-born Jesuit and Irish language scholar Michael McGrath (1872-1946), and another on the Isle of Man Mission (1826-1837). Further collections will be added as time
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The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. This project provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than 16,000 books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers, and other scholarly works
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The 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, taking place in Chicago, January 3-6, features panels, papers, and a poster on Jesuit Studies. Information about those relevant presentations appears below. To learn more about the AHA meeting, please visit: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Panel: Jesuit Imagination, Strategy, and
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In June 1965, the Church of the Gesù in Rome, the Jesuits’ mother church, celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart with the newly elected Superior General of the Society of Jesus presiding. The 31st General Congregation, which had elected Pedro Arrupe as general, was still in progress as was the Second Vatican Council. It
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Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at the Shrine of the Great Promise (Santuario de la Gran Promesa) in Valladolid, Spain, on May 8, 1970. The celebration took place on Arrupe’s first visit to Spain after his election as the Jesuits’ Superior General in 1965. The shrine marks the location of a former Jesuit theologate’s church
What the Sacred Heart of Christ Means to the Society of Jesus, Pedro Arrupe (1970) Read More »
The following text emerged from a brief address Pedro Arrupe delivered to an audience of clergy, religious, and laity in 1975. The group had gathered to considered how best to encourage devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Arrupe was one of several people invited to speak, each limited to ten minutes. Arrupe mentions to
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Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily on the Feast of the Sacred Heart in June 1975. Months before, Pope Paul VI published an apostolic exhortation, Gaudete in Domino (Christian Joy). Here, Arrupe responds to false devotion to the Sacred Heart. He asks if the feast day was one of sorrow and sadness or one of
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In December 1551, Ignatius had his secretary Juan Alfonso de Polanco write to Antonio Araoz, the provincial of Spain, about the Society’s rapidly developing educational apostolate. What resulted was a concentrated epitome of the early Society’s thinking about this enterprise. Polanco swiftly covers issues of “method” (founding, administration, faculty, structure, content), and “advantages,” both for
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The official Directory of the Spiritual Exercises was published in 1599. The directory was the culmination of study and experimentation through commissions over the course of four generalates. A committee appointed by the Fifth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593-94) appointed the committee that ultimately produced the official directory. To mark the occasion,
On the Employment of the Spiritual Exercises, Claudio Acquaviva (1599) Read More »
