12-marks | matte-zeal
bold = Main text
Chapter grey = Comment text
501 10 | apostolate. It does not matter, as long as his work is
502 | me
503 6 | does not celebrate the "meal of the Lord". For the community
504 9 | recognizes that we are not meant to live alone; but the same
505 4 | one another's lives, as mediators to one another of the presence
506 3 | the Society to which each member belongs first of all (Cf
507 6 | celebration of that quality of "memory of me" which a community
508 8 | desire to get beyond the mere minimum. In response to
509 8 | lifestyle and even about the methods and tools we use in our
510 7 | the Lord, present in our midst, offers in the sacraments
511 6 | distinct tendency to liturgical minimalism deprives our community celebration
512 8 | desire to get beyond the mere minimum. In response to the call
513 1 | community life.~Though it is a mistake to see a fundamentally individualistic
514 4 | connotations that could lead to misunderstanding, Master Ignatius and the
515 7 | allows real tensions and misunderstandings to be kept quiet but which
516 10 | deciding to take it on or modify it, carry it through or
517 2 | many other kinds of new movements in the Church. In a world
518 2 | the well-spring and the moving force – never stops creating
519 6 | lives with the rhythm of the mysteries of Christ's life – our way
520 Intro | Do our communities remain mysterious to all except Jesuits, or
521 1 | political acts in their own names and against the esprit de
522 3 | one culture, serving one nation, responding to some definite
523 2 | fact that Jesuits of many nations, cultures, languages and
524 10 | formation that every work needs, necessary relaxation, and
525 3 | solidarity with the apostolic network of the Province or Assistancy
526 8 | common: Christ and his Good News. The issue here is not just
527 2 | not remain just something nice that Jesus said, but can
528 | none
529 3 | establish one apostolic body – "nos reducere ad unum corpus" –
530 Intro | Congregation (GC 34, 250 and notes 10 and 21). Though it emphasized
531 Intro | Congregation, you surely noticed that there is no decree
532 11 | institutes, can continue to nourish and guide our reflection
533 3 | community life is being nourished by the Ignatian inspiration
534 5 | what they did: they founded numerous confraternities; they established
535 2 | unity in spite of every obstacle. The people of God join
536 | off
537 3 | concern for dialogue, the offer of ignatian spirituality
538 4 | 34, 248) to whom we have offered ourselves to grow in missionary
539 7 | Lord, present in our midst, offers in the sacraments of Eucharist
540 11 | among these reactions to the official letters of the whole Society.
541 1 | this total absorption in oneself and one's own work, ideas,
542 2 | compassion, of solidarity and open-handed generosity, of a loving
543 9 | one another as we are~This opinion is unanimous: community
544 3 | rather, it exists as one opportunity for the universal body of
545 3 | grounds for precluding the option for the poor or the concern
546 4 | volunteers in an international organization, or more or less paying
547 1 | fundamentally individualistic orientation in the spirituality of the
548 Intro | expressed this charism of our origin and foundation concretely
549 5 | In much the same way, the original ideal for our community
550 | otherwise
551 4 | community life will never fully oust the sense of solitude that
552 3 | community and the need to work outside a house of the Society.
553 Intro | poverty could hardly have overlooked our sharing of material
554 10 | unconsciously as though we were the owners of our apostolic works,
555 8 | here is not just a kind of palpable evangelical compact among
556 5 | means are too ordinary and paltry.~
557 4 | them before the battle of Pamplona. For him a companion was
558 Intro | life. It reminds us in one paragraph that prayer and sharing
559 2 | many groups and sects; in a parallel way, the urge to communion –
560 7 | grow without the grace of pardon that the Lord, present in
561 3 | would not be rooted in any particular house, but rather would
562 Intro | hospitality and solidarity, partnership and mutual help, exchange
563 Intro | Congregation (NC 314-330).~In other parts of its work, the recent
564 3 | time but challenged by the passionate desire of the Church for
565 Intro | happened that during the past few years (especially during
566 6 | Jesus (I Cor 11, 25). St. Paul's remark remains true for
567 4 | organization, or more or less paying boarders in our houses.
568 Intro | Dear Fathers and Brothers,~Peace of Christ.~When you glanced
569 7 | who resign themselves to a peaceful coexistence, which allows
570 5 | the way to God. As Father Pedro Arrupe noted, we have no
571 4 | expression comes from the pen of Master Ignatius. As far
572 1 | negative aspects of this penetrating individualism, this total
573 8 | with our communities cannot perceive in them the reason for our
574 4 | others recognize themselves perfectly well in the last congregation'
575 1 | issue public statements or perform political acts in their
576 | perhaps
577 Conclu| the measure in which it is permeated by the anointing of the
578 Conclu| oil is the anointing which permeates the whole person and fills
579 Conclu| which permeates the whole person and fills him with the Spirit
580 1 | whom has affirmed his own personhood in Christ (cf. Ex. 98 and
581 10 | s spirituality. In that perspective, every minute spent on community
582 Conclu| Fraternally yours in the Lord,~Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.~Superior
583 4 | Congregation even rejected the phrase "fellow workers". As far
584 3 | companions, dispersed in many places because of their mission,
585 10 | doing everything it can to plant and water – with a great
586 11 | of the whole Society. He plays so decisive a role, however,
587 9 | light, no doubt; but also plenty of darkness.~Yet, Master
588 10 | established in response to the Pontiff's call for a New Evangelization:
589 10 | against community life; that poses a risk every bit as serious
590 1 | discloses that it also has some positive aspects. These have put
591 3 | global village" with vast possibilities of communication, many members
592 11 | They are the Holy Father's post-synodal "Apostolic Exhortation on
593 1 | apostolic body – by the power of the One "who in the name
594 1 | and limits, his creative powers and history – is that no
595 8 | communities are open to the practice of hospitality (NC 327,
596 10 | assigned the mission of praying for the Church and the Society.
597 Intro | the first companions who preceded us in this endeavor to grow
598 7 | be kept quiet but which precludes any real progress in community
599 3 | we never have grounds for precluding the option for the poor
600 2 | generosity, of a loving preference for the poor for Christ'
601 Intro | the Society had been being prepared for a sudden urgent insight
602 3 | because of their mission, present-day Jesuits are sometimes called
603 10 | though it were the last safe preserve for our self-fulfillment,
604 9 | as we are, the Lord has preserved our life (Ex 60) so that
605 10 | community life under the pretexts that we have a mission to
606 3 | local community, which is a privileged realization in the here
607 6 | Eucharist solves all our problems, one can safely say that
608 Intro | community life, "our way of proceeding on the way to God". So as
609 6 | of celebrating ought to proclaim the mystery of the communion
610 3 | culture, so that Christ can be proclaimed in a way that really touches
611 7 | brothers (a helpful and productive renewal of our tradition
612 5 | If community life has its profound spiritual source in the
613 3 | have translated them into a program or project for their community
614 3 | translated them into a program or project for their community living (
615 5 | no lack of grand desires, projects and ideas; we do lack sufficient
616 Intro | the decree on vocation promotion. It comes back constantly
617 4 | the expression has been proposed to the communities of the
618 10 | apostolic works, or if we protect an apostolate or an institution
619 2 | exacting demand that will prove new to many of us but that
620 3 | apostolic network of the Province or Assistancy and, to make
621 8 | and 327, 1). During the Provincial's visitation or our annual
622 2 | this kind of diversity has provoked coexistences that are harsh
623 Conclu| the collar of his robes" (Ps. 133, 1-2). There is a risk
624 Conclu| sentiments expressed by the Psalm. But that fragrant oil is
625 1 | allow themselves to issue public statements or perform political
626 11 | been inspired by two recent publications of the Church, even if it
627 10 | community prayer, each one pulls back a little from his personal
628 4 | expressions, Master Ignatius puts into our hands responsibility
629 7 | misunderstandings to be kept quiet but which precludes any
630 10 | encompasses a tremendous range of works and activities.
631 3 | correspondence, and above all on the "ratio conscientiae" through which
632 Intro | that, the Society could re-envision the way Master Ignatius
633 2 | which is humanly far beyond reach but which is truly attainable
634 4 | ex-officio letters, the reaction has been far from unanimous.
635 11 | were touched on among these reactions to the official letters
636 4 | Later on, Father Laynez read in the word society all
637 4 | Company and Society were readily accepted during the first
638 7 | 664).~Happily, one often reads in the ex-officio letters
639 7 | community life. With his usual realism, Master Ignatius does not
640 5 | sufficient humility to give them reality because we think the available
641 3 | community, which is a privileged realization in the here and now of our
642 2 | that Jesus said, but can be realized in human life. "Community
643 4 | that the word society would recall the vision at La Storta,
644 Intro | recent General Congregation recognized a close link between our
645 9 | first book of the Bible recognizes that we are not meant to
646 1 | themselves; a community can reconcile individual personal development
647 7 | light – and, once we are reconciled, to continue on our way
648 4 | the ex-officio letters, to recover this urgent Ignatian requirement.
649 8 | NC 326, 3), in community recreation. Because of the demands
650 3 | encounter their Creator and Redeemer, above all where the Lord
651 Intro | Ignatian year), the Society rediscovered prayerful discernment in
652 1 | one in the community is reduced to a cipher, to being merely
653 3 | one apostolic body – "nos reducere ad unum corpus" – because
654 11 | it has not made explicit reference to them. They are the Holy
655 Intro | with very few exceptions, reflected on what is required for
656 11 | to nourish and guide our reflection on community life.~
657 2 | remarkably in geographical regions where this kind of diversity
658 8 | the poor. Jesuits express regret for not living at the level
659 4 | relations, the Constitutions reject all imagery connected with
660 4 | General Congregation even rejected the phrase "fellow workers".
661 4 | children (GC 34, 248).~Our relationships with one another do not
662 2 | irresistible attraction for religion is at the source of many
663 4 | was one on whom he could rely: in his own words, "he would
664 4 | recent General Congregation remained faithful to that Ignatian
665 6 | Cor 11, 25). St. Paul's remark remains true for today:
666 2 | groups live together – most remarkably in geographical regions
667 8 | the cloister (NC 327, 2), reminders of common prayer (NC 233,
668 Intro | development of community life. It reminds us in one paragraph that
669 8 | lifestyle~The community reports show that the Society values
670 4 | recover this urgent Ignatian requirement. However, the tendency remains
671 4 | share Master Ignatius's reserve in using the word "friend"
672 7 | us community members who resign themselves to a peaceful
673 6 | attitudes, our prayerful respect for the liturgy that marks
674 4 | we have to ask how we can respond to this demand without allowing
675 2 | heart, hoping to find it responded to in consecrated life in
676 3 | culture, serving one nation, responding to some definite need. But
677 8 | activities, but one finds in the responses a desire to get beyond the
678 10 | is how we make ourselves responsible in real life for our mission
679 4 | relationship – to put a restraint on the deep personal love
680 4 | Constitutions, Master Ignatius restricts himself to expressions that
681 8 | visitation or our annual retreats, we should let ourselves
682 6 | quality of our Eucharist reveals a lot about our desire to
683 3 | mission would be viewed and reviewed in the light of Christ's
684 6 | marks our lives with the rhythm of the mysteries of Christ'
685 4 | society all the biblical richness of koinonia (FN 2, 154). ~
686 8 | variations in lifestyle rise from the demands of the
687 3 | movement of love in the Trinity rises the union of the universal
688 Conclu| beard to the collar of his robes" (Ps. 133, 1-2). There is
689 11 | He plays so decisive a role, however, that again this
690 4 | But it was only after the Roman deliberations of 1539, when
691 Conclu| Kolvenbach, S.J.~Superior General~Rome, 12 March 1998 ~ ~
692 3 | community life that would not be rooted in any particular house,
693 5 | our community life has its roots in the foundational experience
694 2 | same table and the same rules. There is in it an exacting
695 6 | daily Eucharist to Christ's sacerdotal prayer and to his beloved
696 4 | gift of the Eucharist and sacramental reconciliation in Christ.
697 7 | our midst, offers in the sacraments of Eucharist and Reconciliation.
698 6 | who "instituted the Holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist to be the
699 10 | though it were the last safe preserve for our self-fulfillment,
700 6 | all our problems, one can safely say that the quality of
701 Intro | departure: We can no longer be satisfied with being more or less
702 4 | family, and even the most satisfying community life will never
703 3 | But from the start, they saw that this mission could
704 2 | 316, 2).~It goes without saying that community life with
705 3 | Lord is little known or scarcely acknowledged. What this
706 5 | confraternities; they established scholastic communities in the colleges;
707 2 | life with such an apostolic scope is much more than simply
708 3 | our community life comes second, as a function of this mission.
709 2 | source of many groups and sects; in a parallel way, the
710 | seemed
711 7 | from the Society "anyone seen to be a cause of division
712 Intro | community life must not be self-centered but open to hospitality
713 10 | last safe preserve for our self-fulfillment, we are no longer servants
714 2 | in encountering Him who sends us, we will be giving no
715 Intro | things in community life, one senses that men everywhere honestly
716 8 | Communities have also become more sensitive to solidarity with the poor.
717 Intro | as friends in the Lord sent on mission like the apostles.
718 Conclu| not likely to arouse the sentiments expressed by the Psalm.
719 Intro | 292-295).~Did we need a separate decree to say more on community?
720 4 | Jesus in the spirit of "sequela Christi", the following
721 10 | poses a risk every bit as serious as favouring community life
722 Intro | important to acknowledge how seriously the communities, with very
723 1 | called by name to become a servant of his Son's mission in
724 6 | today: A community that serves its own ends and follows
725 3 | steeped in one culture, serving one nation, responding to
726 Intro | neglected. The summarizing set of norms which ended the
727 1 | 1. Shadows and lights of individualism~
728 Intro | community, which basically shapes our style of life; and it
729 1 | in a cultural environment shot through with an individualism
730 5 | word of encouragement, a sign of understanding, a welcoming
731 4 | explain fairly well why a significant number of Jesuits share
732 8 | common prayer (NC 233, 234), signs of a life of evangelical
733 2 | lifestyle that speaks of simplicity and compassion, of solidarity
734 1 | responsibility in the drama of sin and grace. We learn in line
735 1 | why missionary zeal has slackened as we give priority to individual
736 8 | wants to make more of the small gestures and services, the
737 5 | understanding, a welcoming smile, time given to listening
738 4 | they could call themselves "socii Jesu". Master Ignatius himself
739 4 | the words companion and socius were not. In speaking of
740 4 | companionship with Him "solely at the service" of our Father (
741 4 | s clear declaration that solid friendships among brother
742 4 | fully oust the sense of solitude that can be filled up only
743 6 | celebrating the Eucharist solves all our problems, one can
744 | something
745 | sometimes
746 2 | community lifestyle that speaks of simplicity and compassion,
747 11 | however, that again this year special directives will address
748 10 | perspective, every minute spent on community is a minute
749 6 | Lord Jesus (I Cor 11, 25). St. Paul's remark remains true
750 1 | These have put a distinctive stamp on Jesuit community life,
751 1 | holy everyone for himself stance that damages common life
752 4 | in Christ. Nothing really stands in the way of our calling
753 3 | fraternal love. But from the start, they saw that this mission
754 1 | themselves to issue public statements or perform political acts
755 3 | concrete apostolic work, steeped in one culture, serving
756 2 | consecrated life in the steps of Him who drew around himself
757 2 | the moving force – never stops creating basic ecclesial
758 4 | However, the tendency remains strong for all to await either
759 1 | characterized by a constant struggle against the negative aspects
760 Intro | which basically shapes our style of life; and it could hardly
761 4 | we".~With these rather subdued expressions, Master Ignatius
762 11 | number of years of both successful and unsuccessful experiments,
763 | such
764 Intro | been being prepared for a sudden urgent insight that we need
765 4 | the following of Christ in suffering so as to follow him in glory (
766 5 | projects and ideas; we do lack sufficient humility to give them reality
767 6 | While no one would want to suggest that celebrating the Eucharist
768 Intro | life was not neglected. The summarizing set of norms which ended
769 3 | together for the purpose. Major Superiors, whose first responsibility
770 4 | brother Jesuits "can not only support a life of dedicated chastity,
771 4 | agreement that community life supposes a demanding brotherhood.
772 4 | that the word societas surfaced as an expression for their
773 1 | challenges community life. In its survey of the Society, the last
774 2 | the same house, the same table and the same rules. There
775 3 | shared ideal of mission takes on flesh in a concrete apostolic
776 | taking
777 10 | himself that his apostolic task makes sense only insofar
778 6 | ends and follows its own tastes when it celebrates the Eucharist
779 8 | commonly know some things to teach us about our faith in the
780 5 | Exercises, Master Ignatius teaches us this alliance between
781 8 | of Jesuits is simple and temperate. But we do not really share
782 5 | simple acts which we are tempted at times to despise. In
783 7 | coexistence, which allows real tensions and misunderstandings to
784 9 | from being barren and even terrible.~
785 2 | life itself is a manifold testimony for our contemporaries,
786 8 | aware that there is one thing we do not need to worry
787 2 | in the Church. In a world thirsting for unity and yet wounded
788 Intro | said on the topic since the Thirty-First General Congregation (NC
789 10 | apostolic priorities that the Thirty-Fourth General Congregation established
790 Intro | improve on Decree 11 of the Thirty-Second General Congregation (GC
791 3 | dispersion, one body for mission~Threatened by the individualism of
792 | throughout
793 8 | even about the methods and tools we use in our apostolic
794 Intro | Congregations have said on the topic since the Thirty-First General
795 1 | penetrating individualism, this total absorption in oneself and
796 11 | local superior (NC 318) were touched on among these reactions
797 3 | proclaimed in a way that really touches their hearts (NC 323). Open
798 | toward
799 | Towards
800 3 | and in dispersion, have translated them into a program or project
801 Intro | ignored greater solidarity and transparency in our sharing with those
802 10 | dispersion encompasses a tremendous range of works and activities.
803 10 | every General Congregation tries to embody at the level of
804 8 | arrangement of the house makes it troublesome. ~Communities have also
805 5 | together, too, by deliberately trusting ourselves to conversation
806 10 | No prayerful community turned in on itself to the detriment
807 4 | 1539, when the companions unanimously expressed their desire to
808 2 | and, humanly speaking, an unattainable dream. This is why community
809 10 | harvest. ~If we act even unconsciously as though we were the owners
810 | under
811 11 | letter, it seemed better to underscore the personal responsibility
812 Intro | insight that we need to understand our apostolic community
813 5 | encouragement, a sign of understanding, a welcoming smile, time
814 1 | how God makes each of us a unique creation, unlike any other,
815 1 | each man be aware of his uniqueness, his capacities and limits,
816 3 | all where that mission is unknown or disregarded – for the
817 | unlike
818 4 | devinctos et collegiatos in uno corpore", that the word
819 8 | gestures and services, the unpretentious care, that make up community
820 11 | What this letter leaves unsaid~Few of the issues about
821 11 | years of both successful and unsuccessful experiments, one can hope
822 | until
823 3 | body – "nos reducere ad unum corpus" – because each had
824 | upon
825 2 | in a parallel way, the urge to communion – of which
826 | used
827 | using
828 8 | reports show that the Society values and wants to make more of
829 11 | were well received by the various religious institutes, can
830 2 | s culture, the Church of Vatican II impacts the dynamic of
831 Intro | ex-officio" letter to give its verdict on our community life.~It
832 3 | which each mission would be viewed and reviewed in the light
833 3 | which has become a "global village" with vast possibilities
834 2 | our members are bound, in virtue of their vocation, to give
835 8 | During the Provincial's visitation or our annual retreats,
836 Intro | prayerful discernment in the vital experience of Spiritual
837 4 | We are not employees or volunteers in an international organization,
838 6 | community. While no one would want to suggest that celebrating
839 2 | of his love for the poor.~Wanting our community life to give
840 8 | that the Society values and wants to make more of the small
841 10 | on community is a minute wasted: the mission comes first!
842 10 | everything it can to plant and water – with a great harvest. ~
843 9 | ignore our limitations and weaknesses and gratify ourselves with
844 9 | experiences of the First Week of the Exercises, to that
845 2 | which the Spirit is the well-spring and the moving force – never
846 | whatever
847 4 | initiative of the superior or the wholehearted consensus – hardly likely –
848 1 | individualism explains why there is widespread lack of apostolic availability;
849 4 | take the place of having a wife and children (GC 34, 248).~
850 6 | Eucharist (NC 227, 2), as well, witnesses to its centrality in the
851 9 | exclamation of very deeply felt wonder as we discover that, in
852 4 | rejected the phrase "fellow workers". As far as this Congregation
853 8 | thing we do not need to worry about: currently, we are
854 2 | thirsting for unity and yet wounded by hatred and killing, by
855 Intro | men everywhere honestly yearn for a new departure: We
856 | your
857 | yours
858 1 | Spirit"; and why missionary zeal has slackened as we give
|