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While the precise details of the application process may also differ somewhat depending on the province or region, it will likely include the following elements: submission of a spiritual autobiography interviews with several Jesuits and possibly a Jesuit colleague a psychological assessment submission of an extensive application form, academic transcripts, financial reports, letters of recommendation medical examinations background check Each provincial makes the final decision regarding the acceptance of a candidate to begin the novitiate.
How do Jesuits see their mission in the Church and the world today? The four Universal Apostolic Preferences are: To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment To walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice To accompany young people in the creation of a hope-filled future To collaborate in the care of our Common Home.
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Midland, Ontario. We're excited to see you. Complete the form to request more information. He himself clearly perceived the need for the papacy as the headquarters of the universal church. He saw that Catholicism must be universal and that nationalism and ethnocentrism could have no place in it.
He founded a Society made up of Spaniards, Portuguese, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Englishmen and many others who worked together in an undivided apostolate under the direction of a single general superior. One of the great blessings of the Society of Jesus, today as in the past, is its worldwide horizon.
A great weakness of the church in the Europe of St. Many priests were barely literate, and the laity in some countries did not know the basic elements of the Creed.
Rather than complain and denounce, Ignatius preferred to build. Popular education, he perceived, was on the rise. Taking advantage of the new desire for learning, Ignatius quickly set about founding schools, colleges and seminaries.
The educational efforts of the Jesuits in the past count among their greatest services to the church. These educational institutions, I believe, are still among the major blessings that the Society of Jesus offers to the church and to the culture at large. Jesuits in the past have entered deeply into the intellectual apostolate. Many were leaders in practical sciences such as political theory.
Nothing suggests that this type of research has lost its relevance. The church needs loyal and devoted scholars who will carry this type of reflection further, in view of new and developing situations.
Here again the Society has much to contribute if sufficient numbers will hear the call. In the 16th century, the Society of Jesus was at the vanguard of the church in dealing with the problems posed by the Protestant Reformation, by the new science and by access to new continents that had been beyond the awareness of Europeans in the past. Today the church is confronted with mounting secularism, with new advances in technology, and growing globalization and an attending clash of cultures.
If anyone should ask whether these developments render the Ignatian charisms obsolete, I would reply with an emphatic no.
The Society can be abreast of the times if it adheres to its original purpose and ideals. Not to mention enemies for whom Jesuit is a term of opprobrium, friends of the Society sometimes identify the term with independence of thought and corporate pride, both of which St. Ignatius deplored. Others reduce the Jesuit trademark to a matter of educational techniques, such as the personal care of students, concern for the whole person, rigor in thought and eloquence in expression. These qualities are estimable and have a basis in the teaching of St.
But they omit any consideration of the fact that the Society of Jesus is an order of vowed religious in the Catholic Church. They are bound by special allegiance to the pope, the bishop of Rome.
And above all, it needs to be mentioned that the Society of Jesus is primarily about a person: Jesus, the redeemer of the world. If the Society were to lose its special devotion to the Lord which, I firmly trust, will never happen it would indeed be obsolete. It would be like salt that had lost its savor.
The greatest need of the Society of Jesus, I believe, is to be able to project a clearer vision of its purpose. Its members are engaged in such diverse activities that its unity is obscured. In this respect the recent popes have rendered great assistance. Paul VI helpfully reminded Jesuits that they are a religious order, not a secular institute; that they are a priestly order, not a lay association; that they are apostolic, not monastic; and that they are bound to obedience to the pope, not wholly self-directed.
Pope John Paul II, in directing Jesuits to engage in the new evangelization, identified a focus that perfectly matches the founding idea of the Society.
Ignatius was adamant in insisting that it be named for Jesus, its true head. The Spiritual Exercises are centered on the Gospels. Evangelization is exactly what the first Jesuits did as they conducted missions in the towns of Italy. They lived lives of evangelical poverty. Evangelization was the sum and substance of what St. Francis Xavier accomplished in his arduous missionary journeys. And evangelization is at the heart of all Jesuit apostolates in teaching, in research, in spirituality and in the social apostolate.
Evangelization, moreover, is what the world most sorely needs today. The figure of Jesus Christ in the Gospels has not lost its attraction. Who should be better qualified to present that figure today than members of the Society that bears his name? Cardinal Avery Dulles , S. This text was delivered on Nov. A French Jesuit, Emmanuel S. His expertise was in the use of resources, of water and energy, an expertise he drew on in working with developing countries.
He spent much time advising directly in those countries but was also involved in overall U. For example, he organized the U. Conference on New Sources of Energy in Rome in and an interregional seminar on techniques of petroleum development the following year. His presence on the delegation and assignment to the Social Committee was evidence of an openness in his newly independent country and in its diplomacy. At the time I was on the staff of the National Catholic Welfare Conference Office for United Nations Affairs, which was, incidentally, the first full-time nongovernmental organization office at the United Nations.
More than 16, Jesuits work throughout the world, according to their website. Although Jesuits can choose from many careers, most are priests and teachers, and others are lawyers, doctors and astronomers, the website said. Pope Francis is the first Jesuit to serve as the pope, according to their website.
The Jesuit mission is heavily focused on public service and justice, according to the website. We have to confront the ocean of anger and rage and hatred with an ocean of compassion.
Loyola is considered a Jesuit university because its educational methods reflect the mission of the Society of Jesus, according to Lisa Reiter, director of Campus Ministry. Non-Jesuit Catholic universities draw inspiration from other areas of the Catholic Church, Reiter said. In other words, Jesuits must be ready to accept whatever mission the Pope requires, a vow that is reflective of our broader dedication to the universal Church, and to the greater good of all people from all faiths and cultures.
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