New England Jesuit Archives are located at Jesuit Archives (St. Louis, MO) Digitized Collections hosted by CrossWorks. New England Province History 12-1940 The esJ uit Seminary News Jesuit Seminary Guild All physical materials associated with the New England Province Archive are currently held by the Jesuit Archives in St. Louis, MO. Any inquiries about these materials should be directed to the Jesuit Archives (http://jesuitarchives.org/). Electronic versions of some items and the descriptions and finding aids to the Archives, which are hosted in CrossWorks, are provided only as a courtesy. Digitized Record Information Jesuit Seminary Guild, "The eJ suit Seminary News" (1940). New England Province History. 3. https://crossworks.holycross.edu/nenprovhistory/3 < i • ©uaim=Centennial g>octetp of 3e£u£ 1540 - = - 1940 J^eto (Knglanb h,^ Cf)ri£tma£ Greetings Vav* Sfessmt g>emtnarp <&uilb December 300 NEWBURY ST. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1940 ItoL 3C3 No- 2 Dedication to •atnt 3Jgnatiu£ of Hopola t AINTLY FATHER AND FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, to you we dedicate these pages as a grateful salute of S soldiers to our Leader. It was your intrepid spirit that called forth a Company of Jesus Christ to do battle for Him. To these ranks the Divine Captain has called each one of us. Were it not for you, Ignatius of Loyola, there would be no long line of regiments to lead us on; and no glorious heritage of forefathers for the past four hundred years to hand us down their honored shields. They have fallen as heroes in the battle that we, too, may be valiant of heart. Gratefully and prayerfully we plead: make us worthy of you, Ignatius, and of those who have lived and died for Christ. Give us the grace in sacrifice and suffering to emulate our Saints and martyrs. Their record is a scroll of glory for you: make it for us your sons of today a clarion challenge to achieve' ment. Make us, Father, humble and prayerful: take from us the seeds of self-glorifying satisfaction in the warfare we have waged, and grant to us the same Divine restlessness that enflamed your heart, and the irresistible ardor that was yours when four hundred years ago you cried, Ad maiorem Dei Gloriam. His Eminence William Carbinal (^'Conncll Under whose spiritual inspiration the work of The Society of Jesus in New England has been a labor of love for thirty-three fruitful years. T , w^^M^f^r^^^q'^y^^^y^^'y-^'i •-•'' "T~ ~'~~'*~:™^- ,*-*:*^WJ:>iKKimilrA »Bp|WgW[g3P3S%TOBJ!^^ T length they have reached the sacred City. And steadfastly per­ g severing in the bonds of charity and seeking to perfect and per­ •4 &egtoum jWtlttantte Ccclestae petuate the ties which bound them together as one Society in Christ, they have formulated a plan of life based upon the evangelical counsels and the cononical sanctions of the Fathers and regulated by those prin­ -m m ciples, which experience had taught them to be conducive to the end $0 of $ope $aul MS which they proposed unto themselves. In consequence, the manner of life instituted by this body of Companions and embraced within the '1 I**'-. • s*. m. aforesaid formula not only elicited the praise of many virtuous men fa 3ft RESIDING, as We do, by God's Providence over the government burning with zeal for God, but even won the approbation of some souls I:. ' of the Church Militant, albeit Our qualifications fall short of that to such a degree as to awaken within them a longing to adopt this plan trust; and diligently seeking with mingled anxiety and zeal the salvation of life also for themselves. .v8 Hi*'- of souls conformably to the obligations of Our pastoral office, We spon­ $••••••: 31N view of the fact, then, that this formula of life contains nothing taneously cherish with the affectionate esteem of Our Apostolic favor foreign to piety and holiness and in order that the selfsame Com­ all the faithful, who manifest a desire to be the recipients of that esteem; panions, who have most humbly entreated Us to accede to their petition, \4 and moreover, We dispose of their services in various wise according W may manifest greater alacrity in following their holy rule of life in pro­ to the measure of that greater advantage and profit, which in the Lord portion to the greater favor with which they recognize themselves to be We perceive to be presaged by circumstances of time and place. embraced by the Apostolic See, We with Apostolic authority and by the *". tenor of these presents and out of Our certain knowledge do aoprove, 4 J90W We learned but recently that Our beloved sons Ignatius Loyola f establish, bless and confirm with the strength of perpetual stability this ~ and Peter Faber and James Laynez, Claude le Jay and Paschase holy rule of life in its entirety and in its each several part as being con­ ducive to the spiritual perfection of the selfsame Companions and the Brouet and Francis Xavier, Alphonsus Salmeron and Simon Rodriquez rest of the flock of Christ; and We embrace the Companions themselves '3 and John Codure and Nicholas Bobadilla — priests of the cities of rf't under Our protection and under the shelter of this Apostolic See, the Pampeluna, Ceba, Siguenza, Toledo, Vizeu, Embrun and Palencia and while We grant to them the power freely and lawfully to draw up ..••it the corresponding diocesan sees — after graduating with the degree of '.••.'*J among themselves particular Constitutions, which in their judgment are Master of Arts from the University of Paris and spending many years jfefiv. • in conformity with the end of this Society and the glory of Our Lord in theological studies have under the illumination of the Holy Spirit, I-•:•,-.. Jesus Christ and the service of the neighbor. as it is piously believed, forsaken various parts of the world to bind HP" JSOTWITHSTANDING the constitutions and ordinations of the $t H*' themselves together. Fashioned in this wise into a body of Companions, General Council and of Our Predecessor, Pope Gregory X of they have renounced the allurements of this life and have consecrated I- happy memory, and any other Apostolic constitutions and ordinations •:-4 I" their lives to the perpetual service of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to ./it!I whatsoever, and notwithstanding anything else to the contrary. Our service and that of Our Successors, the Roman Pontiffs. M 7JT shall, therefore, be unlawful for any person whomsoever to attempt fc -4 /IpVEN now over a long span of years they have toiled in the vineyard any infringement of this document of Our approbation, establish­ ment, blessing, confirmation, acceptance, concession and will, or with of the Lord. For upon obtaining the necessary faculties, they have audacious daring to contradict it. If, however, any one shall have the publicly preached the word of God — the while they have in private presumption to attempt this, let him know that he shall thus incur the exhorted the faithful to a good and holy life and urged them to the wrath of Almighty God and of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. practice of pious meditation. They have attended the sick in hospitals if** /1&IVEN at Rome, at Saint Mark's, the twenty-seventh day of Septem­ and have instructed boys and unlettered persons in all that is requisite ber, in the fifteen hundred and fortieth year after the Incarnation for the Christian formation of man. In fine, wherever their journeys of Our Lord, the sixth year of Our Pontificate. have brought them, they have merited high praise by their performance ,M of all the works of charity, which make for the solace of souls. ^jf5^^fK:;;^«ivm*?*:V'' .Vv':';-; lifgisifeiiiiiiiii^^ DECEMBER, 1940 The JESUIT SEMINARY NEWS There is another reason also why We should heartily congratulate you on this occasion and exhort you with fatherly affection. We are aware, gpostoltc Hetter of $te holmes*, $tus: #33, indeed, that your Society from its very origin devoted itself wholeheartedly and with all its strength to the safeguarding of the Catholic faith in all its purity and fullness against the manifold deceits of erroneous doctrine, to the NINTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY vindication of the most sacred rights of the Church and of the Roman Pontiffs, and, lastly, to the propagation of the Christian religion by apos­ tolic men, who sowed the divine word among all nations. And here the BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE, names of those men of eminent holiness come to Our mind, who like Peter Canisius and Robert Bellarmine. Peter Claver and John Francis Regis To His BELOVED SON, and Francis Geronimo. * * * * And if the enemies of the Divine Redeemer and of the Church have ^lobimir Hebocfjotosifet persecuted your religious Society with a particular hatred and animosity, that must redound not to your discredit but to your highest praise; for whoever SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE follows Christ the Lord with utmost fidelity and love productive of great deeds must, in a certain measure, necessarily incur the odium and execration SOCIETY OF JESUS, of depraved men. ... In persecutions, then, of all kinds, in accusations and ON THE OCCASION OF calumnies, do not lose heart; but mindful of the saying "Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice's sake, for theirs is the kingdom of THE FOURTH CENTENARY OF THE heaven," carry on with enthusiastic zeal the holy works you have begun, rejoicing exceedingly like the Apostles "that you have been accounted FOUNDATION OF THE SAID SOCIETY worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus." * * * * ELOVED SON: Nor do We wish on this occasion to pass over in silence the high com­ Greeting and the Apostolic Benediction.