Impelling Spirit: Revisiting a Founding Experience, 1539, Ignatius of Loyola and His Companions : an Exploration Into the Spirit and Aims of the Society of Jesus as Revealed in the Founders' Proposed Papal Letter Approving the SocietyImpelling Spirit is a book about Jesuit spirituality as seen in its origins. As such it responds to the challenge of Vatican II that the appropriate renewal of religious life demands a return to the sources of Christian life and the spirit and aims of the founders of an institute. The instrument the author employs is a 1539 document Ignatius and his companions drafted for Pope Paul III as an apostolic letter addressed to themselves; this document - long neglected and largely unknown - clearly reveals how they understood themselves and their way of life. It demonstrates that the spirit and aims of the Society, though radical in 1539, were also deeply rooted in the Christian tradition. |
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Pope Paul III and His Beloved Sons | 33 |
PART ONE | 47 |
Their Choice to Be Priests | 65 |
Their Choice to Join into One Body | 81 |
The Impelling Action of the Holy Spirit | 89 |
Free to Serve | 97 |
Concluding Reflection | 127 |
Companionship in Christ | 255 |
Concluding Reflection | 285 |
The Meaning of vivendi formula | 291 |
The Evangelical Counsels | 299 |
The Normative Teachings | 319 |
Concluding Reflection | 331 |
The Meaning of propositum | 339 |
The propositum of Ignatius | 353 |
Workers in the Vineyard | 133 |
Planting and Tending the Vineyard | 139 |
Tending the Weakest Vines | 163 |
Stewardship of the Vineyard | 183 |
Concluding Reflection | 205 |
Introduction | 209 |
Ecclesia semper reformanda | 219 |
Concluding Reflection | 231 |
Prophetic Commitment | 239 |
Vite institutum A Way that | 247 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient apostolic approved Benedict bishop Bobadilla Broët bull called Canon Carafa Cardinal Cardinal Contarini Carthusian century chastity Christ Christian Church Cistercian Codure commitment compañía companions companionship Company Contarini conversatio dedicate Deliberation desire document Dominic evangelical counsels ex plurium example exhorting experience faith Fathers Favre five decrees follow Francis Franciscan friars go to Jerusalem God's Gospel heart Holy Spirit Ignatius Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius's impelling Institute institutum Jerusalem Jesuit La Storta Lateran Latin Laynez letter living Lord Loyola Manresa means ministry monastic monks Montmartre Nadal norms obedience ordained panions papal Paris penance Pierre Favre pilgrim pilgrimage Polanco poor Pope Paul III poverty praise prayer preaching priesthood priests propósito propositum refers reform regula religious order Rodrigues Rome rule Simão Rodrigues Societatis Society of Jesus souls Spiritual Exercises teaching Theatines tion Tommaso Badia translation Venice vicar vineyard vitae viuendi formula word