John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Prayer: Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.
The special quality of the commitment to which Christ calls His Society… consists in saying “yes” to the promotion of justice in saying a personal “yes” to the Incarnate Word. For it is through participation in the mystery of His cross and His paschal glory that His reign of justice and peace comes about. And it is this personal adherence to Christ – going far beyond a simple assent to the ethical values promoted by the Gospel and by the teaching of the Church – which grounds the union of minds and hearts in a Society which bears his Name, and roots our fidelity to this Society in a love prepared for ordeals, not in a shallow, passing feeling. It is this personal adherence to Christ which makes us grown into oneness with a Church which, despite so many appearances and near proof to the contrary, is a “communion of love in Christ.”
Fr. Predmore--
ReplyDeleteThank you for your excellent blog. I check it regularly, printed your recommended reading list from January, and have shared the site with some friends. Thank you for the guidance, and the quality of this work.
--JP
JP,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your good comment. I'm glad you like the site and it is helpful to you. Thanks for sharing it with your friends. Do let me know if you have suggestions for topics. I want to reach people in a way that makes their faith accessible to them.
Fr. Predmore