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1 Conclu| Superior General~Rome, 12 March 1998 ~ ~
2 4 | service" of our Father (Ex 135).~There is a growing yearning
3 1 | in Christ (cf. Ex. 98 and 145). The result of this call
4 4 | the Roman deliberations of 1539, when the companions unanimously
5 4 | richness of koinonia (FN 2, 154). ~Whereas Company and Society
6 8 | everything shared in common (NC 176, 2), and to shape a community
7 8 | evangelical poverty (NC 178, 179) – all of these also
8 8 | evangelical poverty (NC 178, 179) – all of these also help
9 Conclu| Superior General~Rome, 12 March 1998 ~ ~
10 Intro | 34, 250 and notes 10 and 21). Though it emphasized certain
11 8 | reminders of common prayer (NC 233, 234), signs of a life of
12 8 | of common prayer (NC 233, 234), signs of a life of evangelical
13 7 | community reconciliation (NC 236), it should be spiritually
14 4 | without a family (GC 34, 243) and that living in community
15 8 | we wish to witness to (NC 246, 1). In general, the personal
16 6 | the Lord Jesus (I Cor 11, 25). St. Paul's remark remains
17 Intro | and solidarity (GC 34, 250-251). ~The decree on poverty
18 4 | chastity embodies" (GC 34, 260). All appear to be in agreement
19 Intro | need material help (GC 34, 285-286).~And finally, the decree
20 Intro | material help (GC 34, 285-286).~And finally, the decree
21 6 | greatest mark of his love" (Ex 289). The daily celebration
22 Intro | those who seek us?" (GC 34, 292-295).~Did we need a separate
23 Intro | who seek us?" (GC 34, 292-295).~Did we need a separate
24 2 | disciples of Christ" (NC 316, 2).~It goes without saying
25 11 | about the local superior (NC 318) were touched on among these
26 8 | demands of the mission (NC 321 and 327, 1). During the
27 3 | touches their hearts (NC 323). Open and friendly spiritual
28 1 | or looked down upon" (NC 325).~Thus, our community life
29 8 | apostolic discernment (NC 326, 3), in community recreation.
30 Intro | General Congregation (NC 314-330).~In other parts of its
31 4 | him get up" (Autobiography 35). Much later, the first
32 4 | 4. Friends in the Lord, members
33 2 | in modern terms (Acts 2, 42-47). An irresistible attraction
34 2 | modern terms (Acts 2, 42-47). An irresistible attraction
35 5 | 5. Inspiration and concrete
36 4 | our life together (GC 34, 537ff).~In spite of military and
37 4 | friends in the Lord" (GC 34, 545).~This expression comes
38 6 | 6. The Eucharist fashions
39 9 | has preserved our life (Ex 60) so that we can accompany
40 7 | from their head" (Const. 664).~Happily, one often reads
41 3 | the Holy Trinity (Const. 671). In this movement of love
42 7 | 7. Reconciliation~We give
43 8 | 8. Towards a more evangelical
44 9 | 9. We accept one another as
45 4 | follow him in glory (Ex 95). But it was only after
46 1 | personhood in Christ (cf. Ex. 98 and 145). The result of
47 Conclu| the beard, running down Aaron's beard to the collar of
48 4 | for his mission that is absolutely the first priority in our
49 1 | individualism, this total absorption in oneself and one's own
50 9 | us as we are. This mutual acceptance keeps community life from
51 4 | and Society were readily accepted during the first century
52 9 | life (Ex 60) so that we can accompany him on his mission. It is
53 10 | that we have a mission to accomplish and that a comfortable common
54 | according
55 Intro | life.~It is important to acknowledge how seriously the communities,
56 3 | little known or scarcely acknowledged. What this mission means
57 | across
58 3 | universal Society by taking an active part in the life of a community
59 10 | little from his personal activity, and shows for himself that
60 | Actually
61 3 | apostolic body – "nos reducere ad unum corpus" – because each
62 3 | throughout the Society by adapting it to the conditions of
63 11 | special directives will address it. In this letter, it seemed
64 Intro | The General Congregation admitted that it could not improve
65 3 | universal body present, adopt the apostolic priorities
66 4 | community life, how might it affect our relations among ourselves?
67 1 | renewed effort to create an affectionate atmosphere of mutual concern
68 4 | but can also deepen the affective relationship with God that
69 1 | others each of whom has affirmed his own personhood in Christ (
70 4 | 260). All appear to be in agreement that community life supposes
71 5 | bring to Christ, but their aim was to build Christian communities.
72 10 | not in itself one of the aims of the Society's spirituality.
73 8 | everyone – men and women alike and especially the poor –
74 6 | community must have to be alive in the Lord Jesus (I Cor
75 5 | Ignatius teaches us this alliance between vision and act,
76 4 | respond to this demand without allowing a fond friendship – perhaps
77 7 | peaceful coexistence, which allows real tensions and misunderstandings
78 3 | is being-on-mission that animates and governs both living
79 8 | Provincial's visitation or our annual retreats, we should let
80 | anyone
81 | anywhere
82 4 | embodies" (GC 34, 260). All appear to be in agreement that
83 4 | Societas Jesu". Ignatius appreciated the comradeship of military
84 2 | confrontation with individualism arises from today's culture, the
85 Conclu| cultures it is not likely to arouse the sentiments expressed
86 8 | even where isolation or the arrangement of the house makes it troublesome. ~
87 8 | members. No, all of the arrangements in the house ought to point
88 10 | his own in one of the vast array of apostolates that Master
89 5 | to God. As Father Pedro Arrupe noted, we have no lack of
90 4 | brotherhood. But we have to ask how we can respond to this
91 10 | others of the community are assigned the mission of praying for
92 3 | network of the Province or Assistancy and, to make the universal
93 4 | community, instead of each assuming his own responsibility.~
94 3 | s mission, all the while assuring that its life will remain
95 10 | to live on our own while attached to some local community (
96 2 | reach but which is truly attainable through "a close sharing
97 3 | have to be particularly attentive to those who work in a mission
98 6 | choice of place, our bodily attitudes, our prayerful respect for
99 2 | 42-47). An irresistible attraction for religion is at the source
100 4 | would help him get up" (Autobiography 35). Much later, the first
101 5 | reality because we think the available means are too ordinary and
102 4 | remains strong for all to await either the initiative of
103 5 | acts, concrete and even banal: a word of encouragement,
104 9 | community life from being barren and even terrible.~
105 2 | force – never stops creating basic ecclesial communities and
106 Intro | things in community, which basically shapes our style of life;
107 4 | to one of them before the battle of Pamplona. For him a companion
108 10 | Jesus, and that it will bear fruit only on condition
109 | became
110 | becoming
111 10 | Church and the Society. They beg God to bless the labors
112 | beginning
113 3 | Ignatian inspiration of its beginnings. The first companions felt
114 3 | a movement of love which begins and ends – to use Master
115 2 | is why community life has begun to give a witness: communion,
116 3 | Society to which each member belongs first of all (Cf NC 314-
117 6 | sacerdotal prayer and to his beloved Church. There is a mystery
118 9 | hard. The first book of the Bible recognizes that we are not
119 4 | the word society all the biblical richness of koinonia (FN
120 10 | that poses a risk every bit as serious as favouring
121 10 | Society. They beg God to bless the labors of the whole
122 4 | or more or less paying boarders in our houses. The most
123 6 | our choice of place, our bodily attitudes, our prayerful
124 3 | Society is a universal body borne along by the apostolic dynamism
125 Conclu| end of this letter, are we brave enough to echo what David
126 5 | individuals whom they would bring to Christ, but their aim
127 8 | the poor – for the sake of bringing all to Christ. ~Reading
128 5 | individuals, but also for building communities which, like
129 Intro | The decree on chastity calls on each of us to take responsibility
130 7 | humility when we merely admit candidly that there is no ideal community
131 1 | aware of his uniqueness, his capacities and limits, his creative
132 8 | services, the unpretentious care, that make up community
133 3 | this mission could not be carried out either in the confines
134 1 | while individualism itself carries a negative force that destroys
135 7 | Society "anyone seen to be a cause of division among those
136 6 | follows its own tastes when it celebrates the Eucharist does not celebrate
137 6 | as well, witnesses to its centrality in the life of the community –
138 4 | accepted during the first century of the foundation, the words
139 1 | with an individualism that challenges community life. In its survey
140 8 | in the Lord's name: the chapel (NC 227), the cloister (
141 Intro | life of the Society to take charge of this crucial renewal
142 Intro | Society has expressed this charism of our origin and foundation
143 4 | place of having a wife and children (GC 34, 248).~Our relationships
144 6 | way of celebrating – our choice of place, our bodily attitudes,
145 4 | in the spirit of "sequela Christi", the following of Christ
146 5 | but their aim was to build Christian communities. This is what
147 5 | Holy Spirit and founded churches. In much the same way, the
148 1 | community is reduced to a cipher, to being merely one among
149 10 | the Lord at La Storta can claim Ignatian spirituality; neither
150 7 | themselves to a peaceful coexistence, which allows real tensions
151 2 | of diversity has provoked coexistences that are harsh and even
152 11 | envisioned it. And again, the collaboration between superior and director
153 Conclu| down Aaron's beard to the collar of his robes" (Ps. 133,
154 10 | of us is called to be a colleague working on the Society's
155 5 | scholastic communities in the colleges; they renewed religious
156 4 | desire to be "devinctos et collegiatos in uno corpore", that the
157 10 | to accomplish and that a comfortable common life is not in itself
158 2 | together, who show that the new commandment of love need not remain
159 6 | to celebrate in doing the commemoration of Jesus Christ, for it
160 10 | of God, he is still not committing himself to an individual
161 8 | Lord who are the poor. They commonly know some things to teach
162 8 | progress in shared prayer, in communal apostolic discernment (NC
163 8 | of palpable evangelical compact among the community members.
164 4 | ourselves to grow in missionary companionship with Him "solely at the
165 4 | koinonia (FN 2, 154). ~Whereas Company and Society were readily
166 2 | speaks of simplicity and compassion, of solidarity and open-handed
167 10 | community (NC 315). Then, it can compel us to live on our own while
168 Intro | while updating them with the Complementary Norms. Now, finally, everything
169 11 | focusing on this difficult and complex issue, on which the apostolic
170 4 | Ignatius appreciated the comradeship of military life, in which
171 3 | cloister or in a community life conceived of as an end in itself.
172 6 | each of us individually. Concelebration of the Eucharist (NC 227,
173 1 | depends on the men responsibly concentrating their energies to build
174 Intro | based on Master Ignatius's concept of our community life, enriched
175 4 | as this Congregation was concerned, we are "friends in the
176 1 | one's own work, ideas, and concerns; and it will be characterized
177 Conclu| Conclusion~At the end of this letter,
178 Intro | our origin and foundation concretely in many variations on community
179 3 | members without exception – to concretize our mission: helping people
180 3 | universal body that would be concretized in a local community, surely,
181 10 | will bear fruit only on condition that he engage in it as
182 3 | Society by adapting it to the conditions of the local community,
183 4 | companions. He made his confession to one of them before the
184 3 | surely, but would never be confined to it.~It is being-on-mission
185 3 | carried out either in the confines of a cloister or in a community
186 5 | did: they founded numerous confraternities; they established scholastic
187 2 | and solidarity~Whereas our confrontation with individualism arises
188 4 | Constitutions reject all imagery connected with family life. The recent
189 4 | of military and political connotations that could lead to misunderstanding,
190 3 | above all on the "ratio conscientiae" through which each mission
191 4 | superior or the wholehearted consensus – hardly likely – of the
192 Intro | Spiritual Exercises. As a consequence of that, the Society could
193 2 | Community life does not consist only of a gathering of servants
194 Intro | promotion. It comes back constantly to the issue of the witness
195 2 | manifold testimony for our contemporaries, especially since it fosters
196 8 | certain communities have to be content with very little by way
197 7 | of the community, in the context of a community reconciliation (
198 3 | Through this body, the Spirit continues the Son's mission among
199 1 | differentiating it from monastic or conventual community life.~Though it
200 5 | deliberately trusting ourselves to conversation that goes to the heart of
201 1 | concern and sharing, through conviviality and prayerful discernment,
202 6 | alive in the Lord Jesus (I Cor 11, 25). St. Paul's remark
203 4 | devinctos et collegiatos in uno corpore", that the word societas
204 1 | and against the esprit de corps of this "body for the Spirit";
205 3 | nos reducere ad unum corpus" – because each had heard
206 7 | our tradition of fraternal correction).~
207 3 | constant communication, ongoing correspondence, and above all on the "ratio
208 1 | makes each of us a unique creation, unlike any other, and how
209 1 | capacities and limits, his creative powers and history – is
210 3 | helping people encounter their Creator and Redeemer, above all
211 Intro | Society to take charge of this crucial renewal of community life, "
212 8 | of introducing monastic customs into our lives. The real
213 10 | neither can an apostolic work cut off from its source – the
214 1 | for himself stance that damages common life and common work.
215 8 | currently, we are in no danger of introducing monastic
216 9 | doubt; but also plenty of darkness.~Yet, Master Ignatius has
217 Conclu| brave enough to echo what David said? "How good, how delightful
218 6 | community – especially on those days when the community can most
219 1 | names and against the esprit de corps of this "body for
220 Intro | Intro~Dear Fathers and Brothers,~Peace
221 10 | discernment about a work – deciding to take it on or modify
222 11 | whole Society. He plays so decisive a role, however, that again
223 4 | last congregation's clear declaration that solid friendships among
224 4 | not only support a life of dedicated chastity, but can also deepen
225 4 | dedicated chastity, but can also deepen the affective relationship
226 2 | companions of Jesus, and of our deeper experiences in encountering
227 9 | that exclamation of very deeply felt wonder as we discover
228 4 | Ignatius and the first Jesuits defined their community life in
229 3 | nation, responding to some definite need. But it draws its meaning
230 5 | bound together, too, by deliberately trusting ourselves to conversation
231 4 | was only after the Roman deliberations of 1539, when the companions
232 Conclu| David said? "How good, how delightful it is for all to live together
233 4 | community life supposes a demanding brotherhood. But we have
234 Intro | honestly yearn for a new departure: We can no longer be satisfied
235 6 | to liturgical minimalism deprives our community celebration
236 Intro | the way Master Ignatius designed into the Constitutions,
237 5 | we have no lack of grand desires, projects and ideas; we
238 5 | are tempted at times to despise. In the Exercises, Master
239 2 | of persons, otherwise not destined to live together, who show
240 1 | carries a negative force that destroys the sense of the other,
241 Intro | life more clearly and in detail. So it happened that during
242 10 | turned in on itself to the detriment of the mission given by
243 1 | mission. A community can never develop among people who seek nothing
244 4 | expressed their desire to be "devinctos et collegiatos in uno corpore",
245 3 | might take, and however different, we never have grounds for
246 1 | community life, clearly differentiating it from monastic or conventual
247 11 | currently focusing on this difficult and complex issue, on which
248 11 | collaboration between superior and director of work has not been addressed
249 3 | General Congregations have discerned and then fixed in apostolic
250 10 | the mission~It is easy to disclaim personal responsibility
251 1 | tradition of the Society discloses that it also has some positive
252 2 | killing, by division and discord, communion seems very distant
253 3 | that mission is unknown or disregarded – for the greater glory
254 2 | discord, communion seems very distant and, humanly speaking, an
255 6 | have to admit humbly that a distinct tendency to liturgical minimalism
256 1 | aspects. These have put a distinctive stamp on Jesuit community
257 2 | regions where this kind of diversity has provoked coexistences
258 11 | Consecrated Life" and a document from the Congregation for
259 11 | Community." Reading these two documents, which were well received
260 | done
261 9 | what is in man: light, no doubt; but also plenty of darkness.~
262 1 | personal responsibility in the drama of sin and grace. We learn
263 3 | The first companions felt drawn to establish one apostolic
264 2 | speaking, an unattainable dream. This is why community life
265 2 | in the steps of Him who drew around himself the apostles
266 10 | it, carry it through or drop it – in light of Christ'
267 6 | when the community can most easily gather (NC 315). What is
268 2 | never stops creating basic ecclesial communities and many other
269 Conclu| are we brave enough to echo what David said? "How good,
270 1 | by a continually renewed effort to create an affectionate
271 2 | join this seeking in their efforts to live the experience of
272 4 | relationship with God that chastity embodies" (GC 34, 260). All appear
273 1 | Society, the last Congregation emphatically noted that this individualism
274 4 | among ourselves? We are not employees or volunteers in an international
275 3 | their decrees will remain empty words until communities,
276 5 | spirit and the letter, which enables us to make progress on the
277 10 | 317). And the dispersion encompasses a tremendous range of works
278 3 | mission: helping people encounter their Creator and Redeemer,
279 2 | our deeper experiences in encountering Him who sends us, we will
280 5 | and even banal: a word of encouragement, a sign of understanding,
281 Intro | who preceded us in this endeavor to grow together through
282 Intro | summarizing set of norms which ended the updating of the Constitutions
283 1 | Christ.~The Society will not endure if it is made up of Jesuits
284 1 | responsibly concentrating their energies to build the community,
285 3 | and purpose, its dynamic energy, from a movement of love
286 10 | only on condition that he engage in it as freely as he engages
287 1 | of Jesuits individually engaged each in his own work. It
288 10 | engage in it as freely as he engages in community life – as both
289 Intro | concept of our community life, enriched by all that the General
290 9 | intentions. As soon as we enter into community, we realize
291 4 | hardly likely – of the entire community, instead of each
292 1 | own names and against the esprit de corps of this "body for
293 3 | It is this movement that establishes each community in service
294 7 | those who live together, estranging them among themselves or
295 4 | desire to be "devinctos et collegiatos in uno corpore",
296 2 | cultures, languages and ethnic groups live together – most
297 10 | Pontiff's call for a New Evangelization: mission and culture, mission
298 Intro | what makes most Jesuits' everyday environment: community life
299 | everywhere
300 Intro | hundreds of letters that evoke the happy experiences and
301 2 | rules. There is in it an exacting demand that will prove new
302 | except
303 Intro | communities, with very few exceptions, reflected on what is required
304 Intro | partnership and mutual help, exchange and sharing for the fulfillment
305 9 | of the Exercises, to that exclamation of very deeply felt wonder
306 3 | local community does not exhaust all possible ways of being-on-mission,
307 11 | post-synodal "Apostolic Exhortation on the Consecrated Life"
308 3 | being-on-mission, neither does it exist just for itself; rather,
309 3 | of a community already in existence or of one put together for
310 3 | just for itself; rather, it exists as one opportunity for the
311 4 | his own words, "he would expect help from him when he was
312 7 | Ignatius does not hesitate to expel from a community and even
313 11 | successful and unsuccessful experiments, one can hope to end this
314 1 | work. This individualism explains why there is widespread
315 11 | even if it has not made explicit reference to them. They
316 2 | that are harsh and even explosive.~Another witness is not
317 Conclu| the measure in which it expresses the gift of the whole self
318 2 | irrefutable witness by the simple fact that Jesuits of many nations,
319 5 | interior experiences and our failures; and to sharing above all
320 4 | would certainly explain fairly well why a significant number
321 4 | General Congregation remained faithful to that Ignatian intuition
322 8 | lines is that those who are familiar with our communities cannot
323 Intro | life, every one of them fashioned to realize the mission of
324 6 | 6. The Eucharist fashions the community~It is the
325 Intro | Intro~Dear Fathers and Brothers,~Peace of Christ.~
326 10 | every bit as serious as favouring community life to the point
327 10 | itself mission) that we get a feel for these apostolic priorities
328 4 | when he was hungry; if he fell down, the man would help
329 4 | even rejected the phrase "fellow workers". As far as this
330 10 | worldwide body – which in fidelity to our mission is doing
331 4 | of solitude that can be filled up only by intimacy with
332 Conclu| permeates the whole person and fills him with the Spirit of God.
333 2 | in its heart, hoping to find it responded to in consecrated
334 8 | common activities, but one finds in the responses a desire
335 Conclu| together like brothers; fine as oil on the head, running
336 3 | have discerned and then fixed in apostolic priorities.
337 3 | ideal of mission takes on flesh in a concrete apostolic
338 2 | apostolic community whose focus of concern is the service
339 11 | Society at large is currently focusing on this difficult and complex
340 4 | Christ in suffering so as to follow him in glory (Ex 95). But
341 4 | of "sequela Christi", the following of Christ in suffering so
342 6 | serves its own ends and follows its own tastes when it celebrates
343 4 | demand without allowing a fond friendship – perhaps better,
344 7 | who have been forgiven to forgive, to believe that the other
345 7 | one of us who have been forgiven to forgive, to believe that
346 6 | are friends and that we form community. Hence, our way
347 10 | community spirit, the ongoing formation that every work needs, necessary
348 2 | contemporaries, especially since it fosters brotherly love and unity
349 | found
350 5 | life has its roots in the foundational experience of Master Ignatius
351 4 | that was long before the founding of the Society of Jesus.
352 Conclu| expressed by the Psalm. But that fragrant oil is the anointing which
353 Conclu| intercession of Our Lady.~Fraternally yours in the Lord,~Peter-Hans
354 10 | that he engage in it as freely as he engages in community
355 4 | reserve in using the word "friend" even while he lived in
356 3 | hearts (NC 323). Open and friendly spiritual communication (
357 4 | clear declaration that solid friendships among brother Jesuits "can
358 10 | Jesus, and that it will bear fruit only on condition that he
359 Intro | exchange and sharing for the fulfillment of Christ's mission – the
360 4 | community life will never fully oust the sense of solitude
361 4 | Christ's mission gives its fundamental shape to our community life,
362 1 | it is a mistake to see a fundamentally individualistic orientation
363 | further
364 6 | community can most easily gather (NC 315). What is said about
365 8 | to live among the poor. Generally, variations in lifestyle
366 2 | many of us but that the new generation harbors in its heart, hoping
367 2 | solidarity and open-handed generosity, of a loving preference
368 4 | even while he lived in genuine friendship with the companions.
369 2 | together – most remarkably in geographical regions where this kind
370 8 | to make more of the small gestures and services, the unpretentious
371 10 | community life – as both are gifts from God.~
372 2 | who sends us, we will be giving no witness.~Many of our
373 Intro | Peace of Christ.~When you glanced through the decrees of the
374 3 | world, which has become a "global village" with vast possibilities
375 10 | all our availability to go anywhere and join any community (
376 3 | being-on-mission that animates and governs both living in a local community
377 9 | limitations and weaknesses and gratify ourselves with grand ideas
378 10 | plant and water – with a great harvest. ~If we act even
379 6 | the Eucharist to be the greatest mark of his love" (Ex 289).
380 9 | has led us, through the grievous experiences of the First
381 3 | different, we never have grounds for precluding the option
382 4 | Father (Ex 135).~There is a growing yearning in the Society,
383 8 | the Ignatian spirit, one grows aware that there is one
384 11 | continue to nourish and guide our reflection on community
385 5 | another has to say, a helping hand in the work required by
386 4 | Master Ignatius puts into our hands responsibility for the union
387 Intro | clearly and in detail. So it happened that during the past few
388 7 | their head" (Const. 664).~Happily, one often reads in the
389 Intro | of letters that evoke the happy experiences and the hard
390 2 | that the new generation harbors in its heart, hoping to
391 3 | island. It must work in harmonious solidarity with the apostolic
392 8 | toward community life more in harmony with the Ignatian spirit,
393 2 | provoked coexistences that are harsh and even explosive.~Another
394 10 | and water – with a great harvest. ~If we act even unconsciously
395 2 | unity and yet wounded by hatred and killing, by division
396 4 | does not take the place of having a wife and children (GC
397 3 | corpus" – because each had heard the Lord's call to live
398 3 | that really touches their hearts (NC 323). Open and friendly
399 7 | each of our brothers (a helpful and productive renewal of
400 | Hence
401 7 | Master Ignatius does not hesitate to expel from a community
402 1 | his creative powers and history – is that no one in the
403 Intro | senses that men everywhere honestly yearn for a new departure:
404 11 | unsuccessful experiments, one can hope to end this year with some
405 2 | generation harbors in its heart, hoping to find it responded to
406 4 | less paying boarders in our houses. The most recent General
407 6 | Well, we have to admit humbly that a distinct tendency
408 Intro | the apostles. Reading the hundreds of letters that evoke the
409 4 | help from him when he was hungry; if he fell down, the man
410 10 | community life to the point of hurting apostolic work. No prayerful
411 | I
412 5 | Society. It is born of grand ideals, but life in community depends
413 8 | all of these also help identify a community gathered in
414 11 | on which the apostolic identity of many of our apostolates
415 9 | brother?" Alone, we can ignore our limitations and weaknesses
416 Intro | and it could hardly have ignored greater solidarity and transparency
417 2 | culture, the Church of Vatican II impacts the dynamic of our
418 4 | Constitutions reject all imagery connected with family life.
419 2 | the Church of Vatican II impacts the dynamic of our community
420 Intro | our community life.~It is important to acknowledge how seriously
421 2 | which here and now seems impossible by any human means, is possible
422 9 | community, we realize our incapacity to love everyone without
423 10 | the Lord who gives the increase to the services he asks
424 | indeed
425 8 | through the letters that indicate real progress in the Society
426 1 | mistake to see a fundamentally individualistic orientation in the spirituality
427 4 | all to await either the initiative of the superior or the wholehearted
428 Intro | prepared for a sudden urgent insight that we need to understand
429 1 | true that Master Ignatius insists on the self to emphasize
430 10 | apostolic task makes sense only insofar as he accepts is as a mission
431 11 | directives.~This letter has been inspired by two recent publications
432 | instead
433 7 | there are none of these instigators among us. However, there
434 6 | is the Lord himself who "instituted the Holy Sacrifice of the
435 10 | protect an apostolate or an institution as though it were the last
436 2 | Christ's mission. It is an integral part of the mission itself
437 10 | Into this mission, we can integrate community spirit, the ongoing
438 9 | ourselves with grand ideas and intentions. As soon as we enter into
439 Conclu| the image and through the intercession of Our Lady.~Fraternally
440 1 | give priority to individual interests – at times quite justified
441 5 | spiritually; to sharing our interior experiences and our failures;
442 4 | employees or volunteers in an international organization, or more or
443 4 | can be filled up only by intimacy with the Lord. In the Constitutions,
444 4 | friendship – perhaps better, an intimate relationship – to put a
445 Intro | Intro~Dear Fathers and Brothers,~
446 8 | we are in no danger of introducing monastic customs into our
447 4 | faithful to that Ignatian intuition and emphasized that a Jesuit
448 1 | that this individualism has invaded us and shows itself in a
449 4 | to one another and of our investment in one another's lives,
450 Intro | one of our communities was invited to use the year's "ex-officio"
451 2 | of our community life by inviting us to make it what it already
452 Conclu| 1-2). There is a risk in invoking the image; in some cultures
453 2 | our communities give an irrefutable witness by the simple fact
454 2 | terms (Acts 2, 42-47). An irresistible attraction for religion
455 3 | think of itself as a lonely island. It must work in harmonious
456 8 | hospitality (NC 327, 3) even where isolation or the arrangement of the
457 11 | leaves unsaid~Few of the issues about the local superior (
458 Conclu| Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.~Superior General~Rome,
459 5 | inspiration from the Lord's journey to Jerusalem with his apostles,
460 Conclu| way, community life is the joy of living together in the
461 4 | recognize themselves in it.~Judging by the ex-officio letters,
462 10 | and culture, mission and justice, mission and dialogue. And
463 1 | interests – at times quite justified in themselves – rather than
464 3 | spirituality or the yearning to keep close to the people in their
465 9 | This mutual acceptance keeps community life from being
466 7 | misunderstandings to be kept quiet but which precludes
467 2 | yet wounded by hatred and killing, by division and discord,
468 2 | communities and many other kinds of new movements in the
469 3 | where the Lord is little known or scarcely acknowledged.
470 Conclu| in the Lord,~Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.~Superior General~Rome,
471 10 | They beg God to bless the labors of the whole worldwide body –
472 Conclu| the intercession of Our Lady.~Fraternally yours in the
473 2 | many nations, cultures, languages and ethnic groups live together –
474 11 | addressed here. The Society at large is currently focusing on
475 4 | 133). Later on, Father Laynez read in the word society
476 4 | connotations that could lead to misunderstanding, Master
477 8 | evangelical poverty by a lean lifestyle with everything
478 1 | drama of sin and grace. We learn in line with that how God
479 11 | 11. What this letter leaves unsaid~Few of the issues
480 9 | Yet, Master Ignatius has led us, through the grievous
481 Intro | the General Congregation left it to the ordinary life
482 | let
483 1 | 1. Shadows and lights of individualism~Today,
484 9 | Alone, we can ignore our limitations and weaknesses and gratify
485 1 | uniqueness, his capacities and limits, his creative powers and
486 1 | sin and grace. We learn in line with that how God makes
487 8 | The real risk along these lines is that those who are familiar
488 Intro | Congregation recognized a close link between our apostolic community
489 5 | welcoming smile, time given to listening to what another has to say,
490 6 | that a distinct tendency to liturgical minimalism deprives our
491 6 | prayerful respect for the liturgy that marks our lives with
492 4 | word "friend" even while he lived in genuine friendship with
493 3 | not think of itself as a lonely island. It must work in
494 1 | which no one is neglected or looked down upon" (NC 325).~Thus,
495 6 | our Eucharist reveals a lot about our desire to live
496 2 | open-handed generosity, of a loving preference for the poor
497 3 | together for the purpose. Major Superiors, whose first responsibility
498 2 | Community life itself is a manifold testimony for our contemporaries,
499 Conclu| Superior General~Rome, 12 March 1998 ~ ~
500 6 | respect for the liturgy that marks our lives with the rhythm
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