The First Principle and I want and I choose what better leads to Foundation the deepening of God's life in me.

The goal of our life is to live with God St. Ignatius Loyola, from the beginning forever. of the Spiritual Exercises God who loves us, gave us life. Our own response of love allows God's life to flow into Suscipe Domine us without limit. Take, O Lord, and receive my entire All the things in this world are gifts of liberty, my memory, my understanding, God, and my whole will. All that I am, all that presented to us so that we can know I have, Thou hast given me, and I give it God more easily back again to Thee, to be disposed of and make a return of love more according to Thy good pleasure. Give readily. me only Thy love and Thy grace; with these I am rich enough, and I desire As a result, we appreciate and use all of nothing more. these gifts of God insofar as they help us develop as loving persons. Suscipe Domine (in ) But if any of these gifts become the Suscipe, Domine, universam meam center of our lives, libertatem. Accipe memoriam, they displace God intellectum, atque voluntatem omnem. and so hinder our growth toward our Quidquid habeo vel possideo mihi goal. largitus es; id tibi totum restituo, ac tuae In everyday life, then, we must hold prorsus voluntati trado gubernandum. ourselves in balance Amorem tui solum cum gratia tua mihi before all of these created gifts insofar dones, et dives sum satis, hec aliud as we have a choice quidquam ultra posco. and are not bound by some obligation. We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, Suscipe Domine (English wealth or poverty, success or failure, a alternative) long life or short one. Receive, O Lord, all my liberty. Take For everything has the potential of my memory, my understanding, and my calling forth in us entire will. Whatsoever I have or possess a deeper response to our life in God. Thou hast bestowed upon me; I give it all back to Thee and surrender it wholly Our only desire and our one choice to be governed by Thy Will. Give me should be this:

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love for Thee alone along with Thy God’s Grandeur grace, and I am rich enough and ask for nothing more. THE world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from Prayer for Generosity shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze Eternal Word, only begotten son of of oil God, Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Teach me true generosity. Generations have trod, have trod, have Teach me to serve you as you deserve. trod; To give without counting the cost. And all is seared with trade; bleared, To fight heedless of the wounds. smeared with toil; To labour without seeking rest. And wears man's smudge and shares To sacrifice myself without thought of man's smell: the soil any reward Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being Save the knowledge that I have done shod. your will. Amen And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep St. Ignatius Loyola down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Anima Christi Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -- Soul of Christ, sanctify me Because the Holy Ghost over the bent Body of Christ, save me; World broods with warm breast and Blood of Christ, inebriate me; with ah! bright wings. Water from the side of Christ, wash me; Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Passion of Christ, strengthen me; O good , hear me; Within Thy wounds, hide me; O Deus Ego Amo Te - O God I Suffer me not to be separated from Love You 'Thee; From the evil enemy defend me;

In the hour of my death call me, O God, I love Thee, I love thee- And bid me come unto Thee, Not our of hope of heaven for me That with all Thy I may praise Nor fearing not to love and be Thee In the everlasting burning. For all eternity. Amen.

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Thou, Thou, my Jesus, after me steeled, Didst reach Thine arms our dying, Earth hears no hurtle then from fiercest For my sake suferedst nails and lance, fray. Mocked and marred countenance, Yet God (that hews mountain and Sorrows passing number, continent, Sweat and care and cumber, Earth, all, out; who, with trickling Yea and death, and this for me, increment, And Though couldst see me sinning; Veins violets and tall trees makes more Then I, why should not I love Thee, and more) Jesus, so much in love with me? Could crowd career with conquest while there went Not for heaven's sake; not to be Those years and years by of world Our of hell by loving Thee; without event Not for any gains I see; That in Majorca Alfonso watched the But just the way that Thou didst me door. I do love and I will love Thee: Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. What must I love Thee, Lord, for then? For being my king and God. Amen As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Translated by Gerard Manley Hopkins, AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies S.J. draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, In honour of each hung bell's St. Bow swung finds tongue to fling out Lay of the broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the HONOUR is flashed off exploit, so we same: say; Deals out that being indoors each one And those strokes once that gashed flesh dwells; or galled shield Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks Should tongue that time now, trumpet and spells, now that field, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. And, on the fighter, forge his glorious I say more: the just man justices; day. Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings On Christ they do and on the graces; may; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he But be the war within, the brand we is -- wield Christ -- for Christ plays in ten thousand Unseen, the heroic breast not outward- places,

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Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not For Mary's Guidance his To the Father through the features of Holy Mary, Mother of God, men's faces. you have given the world its true light, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Jesus, your Son--the Son of God. You abandoned yourself completely to God's call and thus became a wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from him. My Lord and My God Show us Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, Glorious Lord Christ: so that we too can become The divine influence secretly diffused capable of true love and active in the depths of matter, and be fountains of living water And the dazzling center where all the in the midst of a thirsting world. innumberable fibres of the manifold meet; Deus Caritas Est Power as implacable as the world and as Benedict XVI, 2005 warm as life; You whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, Only in Love Whose eyes are of fire, And whose feet are brighter than molten Only in love can I find You, my God. In gold; love the gates of my soul spring open, You whose hands imprison the stars; allowing me to breath a new air of You who are the first and the last, freedom and forget my own petty self. In The living and the dead and the risen love my whole being streams forth out again; of the rigid confines of narrowness and You who gather into your exuberant anxious self-assertion, which make me a unity every mode of existence; prisoner of my own poverty and It is you to whom my being cries out emptiness. In love all the powers of my with a desire as vast as the universe: soul flow out toward You, wanting never “In truth you are my Lord and my God.” more to return, but to lose themselves completely in You, since by Your love Pierre Teihard de Chardin, S.J. You are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself. , SJ, from Encounters with Silence

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I Desire, I Accept Prayer of Reconciliation Lord Christ, help us to see what it is My God, I do not know what must come that joins us together, not what separates to me today. us. But I am certain that nothing can happen For when we see only what it is that to me makes us different, that you have not foreseen, decreed, and we too often become aware of what is ordained from all eternity. wrong with others. That is sufficient for me. We see only their faults and weaknesses, I adore your impenetrable and eternal interpreting their actions as flowing from designs, malice or hatred rather than fear. to which I submit with all my heart. Even when confronted with evil, Lord, I desire, I accept them all, and I unite my you forgave and sacrificed youself sacrifice rather than sought revenge. to that of Jesus Christ, my divine Savior. Teach us to do the same by the power of I ask in his name and through his infinite your Spirit. merits, William Breault, SJ patience in my trials, and perfect and entire submission to all that comes to me by your good Prayer for Detachment pleasure. Amen. I beg of you, my Lord, to remove anything which separates me from you, St Pignatelli, SJ and you from me.

Remove anything that makes me Prayer for Humility unworthy of your sight, your control, your reprehension; of your speech and Let me have too deep a sense of humor conversation, of your benevolence and ever to be proud. love. Let me know my absurdity before I act absurdly. Cast from me every evil that stands in Let me realize that when I am humble I the way of my seeing you, hearing, am most human, tasting, savouring, and touching you; most truthful, and most worthy of your fearing and being mindful of you; consideration. knowing, trusting, loving, and possessing you; being conscious of your Daniel A. Lord, S.J. presence and, as far as may be, enjoying you.

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This is what I ask for myself and For understanding earnestly desire from you. Amen. It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. Blessed , S.J. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a In celebration of God's love tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing Nothing is more practical we do is complete, which is a way of than finding God, saying that the Kingdom always lies that is, beyond us. than falling in love No statement says all that could be said. in a quite absolute, No prayer fully expresses our faith. final way. No confession brings perfection. What you are in love with, No pastoral visit brings wholeness. what seizes your imagination, No program accomplishes the Church’s will affect everything. mission. It will decide No set of goals and objectives includes what will get you out of everything. bed in the morning, This is what we are about. what you will do We plant the seeds that one day will with your evenings, grow. how you spend We water seeds already planted, your weekend, knowing that they hold future promise. what you read, We lay foundations that will need further what you know, development. what breaks your heart, We provide yeast that produces far and what amazes you beyond our capabilities. with joy and gratitude. We cannot do everything, and there is a Fall in love, sense of liberation in realizing that. stay in love, This enables us to do something, and to and it will decide everything. do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a Fr. , S.J., beginning, a step along the way, an Superior General of the Society of Jesus, opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter 1965-1983 and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders;

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ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. , clever carpenter, companion loyal to the death, pray for Oscar A. Romero us. Archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 Alphonsus Rodriquez, mystical friend, model of hospitality, pray for us.

Litany of Jesuit saints and holy , rich of mind yet poor men of spirit, pray for us.

John Berchmans, single-hearted student,

model of simplicity, pray for us. Ignatius Loyola, our holy founder, man of great desires and perfect humility, , compassionate pray for us. confessor, rekindler of burnt-out faith,

pray for us. Francis Xavier, courageous warrior ever seeking new souls for Christ, pray for us. Jogues, trusting missionary,

obedient unto death, pray for us. Peter Faber, first companion of Ignatius and cherished friend of all, pray for us. John de Brebeuf, lover of the cross and

the name of Jesus, pray for us. , of ready heart and single mind, pray for us. , tireless lover of the poor

and the powerless, pray for us. Francis Borgia, nobleman of poverty, model of indifference, pray for us. , advocate of the poor

and social activist, pray for us. , fearless orator and source of courage to the persecuted, Claude La Colombiere, faithful servant pray for us. and perfect friend of the loving heart of

Christ, pray for us. , consolation and care for the sick and the dying, pray for us. Gerard Manley Hopkins, catcher of fire

and crafter of words, pray for us. Robert Southwell, prisoner-poet of comfort and strength, pray for us. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, mystical

lover of all that is and all that is to be, , scholar, builder, and pray for us. teacher of little children, pray for us.

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Rutilio Grande, devoted pastor of the Putting Love into Practice poor and the oppressed, pray for us. Love consists in sharing what one has Karl Rahner, professor of prayer and and what one is with those one loves. loyal servant of the church, pray for us. Love ought to show itself in deeds more Ignacio Ellacuria and companions, than in words. fearless and faithful proclaimers of the Good News in the face of persecution, I ask the Father to give me an intimate pray for us. knowledge of the many gifts I have received, that filled with gratitude for Pedro Arrupe, grace-filled leader of all, I may in all things love and serve the renewal and rededication, pray for us. Divine Majesty.

Concluding Prayer Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Almighty and ever-watchful God, Lord of the heavens above and the earth Way, Truth, Life below. You are the way, the truth, the life Your Divine Goodness created us in love Without the way there is no going from every part of the world. Your Without the truth there is no knowing Divine Wisdom placed us in the chaos Without the life there is no growing. and darkness of the twentieth century as: poets and singers, engineers and Show us the way, that we may go schoolmasters, scholars and pastors, Teach us the truth, that we may know tailors and gardeners, builders and Grant us the life, that we may grow administrators, artists and friends. Your Eternally. Divine Providence called us into the company of your son Jesus, therefore, Theodore J. (Ted) Tracy, S.J. we devote all our energies to your Divine Majesty to bring order into our world, to make it fertile, and to bless it. I Am Not Worthy to Have You We pledge you the hours of our lives and the use of our deaths through our Come Under My Roof Mother, the Lady Mary, and through our King and Good Brother, Jesus. Lord Christ, Amen. I wish I could offer You a reasonably clean and swept house to dwell in, but I Composed by Louis J. McCabe, SJ and can't. Philip G. Steele, SJ

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I can say—and know the meaning of— falling in Love "I am not worthy to have You come in a quite absolute, final way. under my roof . . ." What you are in love with, But You are already there! what seizes your imagination, Living among the once-flourishing idols. will affect everything. The floor is dirty and at times the room is airless— It will decide even for me! what will get you out of bed in the morning, I am ashamed of Your presence there, what you do with your evenings, yet You slept in a cave how you spend your weekends, and on a donkey's back at night what you read, under the desert stars. whom you know, what breaks your heart, So, if I can't change Your and what amazes you with joy and accommodations, gratitude. let me rejoice all the same that You are present. Fall in Love, I must believe strongly, Lord, stay in love, that I can't question this: and it will decide everything. that You are at home with sinners— and my greatest sin, Lord Christ, Attributed to Pedro Arrupe, S.J. is that I don't want to be a sinner!

Nor do I easily accept it—still, the evidence is overwhelming. A Colloquy With Jesus But hope is like a green shoot in the midst of an airless, disordered I turn to Jesus Christ, hanging on His world. cross, and I talk with Him.

And that hope comes from Your Spirit. I ask how it can be that the Lord and I rest in that hope, Lord. Creator should have come from the infinite reaches of eternity to this death William Breault, S.J. here on earth, so that He could die for our sins.

Fall in Love And then I reflect upon myself, and ask:

Nothing is more practical than What have I done for Christ? finding God, than

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What am I doing for Christ? Magnificat of Mary What ought I do for Christ? My soul magnifies the Lord, And I talk with Jesus like a friend. and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; because He has regarded the lowliness of From the Spiritual Exercises, His handmaid; paraphrased by Joseph Tetlow, S.J. for behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed; because He who is mighty has done The Memorare great things for me, and Holy is His Name; and His mercy is from generation Remember, O most gracious to generation on those who fear Him. Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, He has shown might with His arm, implored your help or sought your He has scattered the proud in the conceit intercession, was left unaided. of their heart. Inspired by this confidence, He has put down the mighty from their we fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, our thrones, and has exalted the lowly. Mother! He has filled the hungry with good To you we come, before you we stand, things, and the rich he has sent away sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the empty. Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and He has given help to Israel, His servant, answer us. Amen. mindful of His mercy - Even as He spoke to our fathers - to and to his posterity forever.

(Luke 1:46-55)

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