The 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus was the first in Jesuit history to meet over two independent sessions, meeting first from May 7, 1965 until July 15, 1965, and then again from September 8, 1966 until November 17, 1966. The delegates in attendance (224 in all) represented roughly 36,000 of their Jesuit brethren […]
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In the following decree, the delegates of the 31st General Congregation assert “the importance of prayer,” while proposing “specific orientations on the manner and conditions of prayer” for members of the Society of Jesus. The decree closes with a reminder for “every Jesuit that personal daily prayer is an absolute necessity.” To that end, it
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An two-day international symposium on famed Jesuit missionary to Tibet Ippolito Desideri (1648-1773) begins on October 13 in Pistoia, Desideri’s birthplace. The interdisciplinary conference is entitled, “The humane, religious, and scientific value of the Pistoian missionary’s great enterprise, three hundred years later.” It takes place at the Biblioteca San Giorgio. The program is
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A new essay on the historiography of the Society of Jesus in Korea is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay, authored by Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch, examines how historians have treated the Jesuits’ “important influence” on Korea Catholicism despite the fact that “until the 1950s, only
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A new essay on the historiography of Jesuits in post-restoration India (since 1834) is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay is authored by Savio Abreu, S.J., director of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa. Abreu begins by tracing the treatments of the suppression and restoration of
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Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), a conference in Rome (30 May-1 June), seeks to “compare missionaries’ roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent.” Panels are centered on communicative settings for missionary work (urban, court, settings, and rural), and presentations include: “Jesuit
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“The founding of the Society of Jesus,” Jesuit historian Joseph Conwell has argued, “begins with a discernment process.” The fruits of that process of discernment appear in the following document, Cum ex plurim, written by Ignatius and his companions in 1539. The document articulates the founders’ vision for what became the Jesuit order. Indeed, five
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Title Year Ignatius on Reconciliation 1542 Ignatius on Obedience 1542 Ignatius on Writing 1542
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Author Document Title Date Contributor Maruca, Dominic (translator) Deliberations of Our First Fathers 1539 Maryland Province, Society of Jesus Conwell, Joseph F. (translator) Cum Ex Plurium (Prima Societatis Iesu instituti summa) 1539 Oregon Province, Society of Jesus Costellone, M. Joseph (translator) The First Jesuits’ Vow of Obedience 1539 Institute of Jesuit Sources Five Chapters
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