Loyola Quotes

Go forth and set the world on fire.

Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.

Love is shown more in deeds than in words.

To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will

Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it--an abstract and geometric love.

Laugh and grow strong

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the cost to fight without fear of being wounded to work without seeking rest and to spend myself without expecting any reward but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven. All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully. As a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

[L]ove ought to manifest itself in deeds rather than in words.... love consists in a mutual sharing of goods, for example, the lover gives and shares with the beloved what he possesses, or something of that which he has or is able to give; and vice versa, the beloved shares with the lover. Hence, if one has knowledge, he shares it with the one who does not possess it; and so also if one has honors, or riches. Thus, one always gives to the other.

He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.

After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, “Son, sometimes it’s enough just to act less like a shithead.

If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. —Ignatius of Loyola

Ite, inflammate omnia.

Even Ignatius Loyola wavered. That dark night of the soul, man. No one’s immune. It would all be meaningless if you didn’t wonder and doubt. That’s what makes it real. That’s what makes us people. God could have sent angels to flutter around like fairies, delivering rum punch and manna all day on a cosmic cruise ship. But what would that avail us?

Lakše je ukoriti duh nego razoriti tijelo.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

Teach us… To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest… —St. Ignatius Loyola

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a faithful follower of Ignatius Loyola.8

I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old man. Little shits. They'll see who's the uninvited old man, motherfuckers.

if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.

There are some people you just dislike, without even knowing why. You take one look at them and you just don’t like them. It’s not that they ever did anything to you, it’s just spontaneous antipathy, pure and simple.

Spain was not a lack of form, but an excess of form, death as form, so to speak—not death as dissolution, but death as something austere, black, elegant, and bloody, the Inquisition, starched ruffs, Loyola, the Escorial.

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

156. There is a sort of glory of silence. Saint Ignatius of Loyola did not hesitate to write in his Spiritual Exercises: “The more the soul is in solitude and seclusion, the more fit it renders itself to approach and be united with its Creator and Lord.

I hadn’t wanted to get involved or to accept any personal responsibility….[so] that I would be ready to drop everything at any moment and flee. Ever since I was a [child] I’ve needed that feeling, that theoretical escape route. It never appealed to me to stay in the same place, making incessant renovations. What I wanted was to be disengaged, to escape from everything and live far away where no one could find me.

Todo buen cristiano ha de ser más pronto a salvar la proposición del prójimo que a condenarla; y, si no la puede salvar, inquira cómo la entiende; y, si mal la entiende, corríjale con amor; y, si no basta, busque todos los medios convenientes para que, bien entendiéndola, se salve.

Prayer of St. Ignatius Loyola Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve You as You deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to ask for reward save that of knowing I am doing Your Will.

I don't actually know what 'transgenic' means. I just know that I have to express doubt or repulsion whenever I say it. It impresses people.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

no el mucho saber harta y satisface al ánima, mas el sentir y gusta de las cosas internamente.

For though, outside the Exercises, we can lawfully and with merit influence every one who is probably fit to choose continence, virginity, the religious life and all manner of evangelical perfection, still in the Spiritual Exercises, when seeking the Divine Will, it is more fitting and much better, that the Creator and Lord Himself should communicate Himself to His devout soul, inflaming it with His love and praise, and disposing it for the way in which it will be better able to serve Him in future. So, he who is giving the Exercises should not turn or incline to one side or the other, but standing in the centre like a balance, leave the Creator to act immediately with the creature, and the creature with its Creator and Lord.

Lord, take as your right, and receive as my gift, all my freedom, my memory, my understanding and my will. Whatever I am and whatever I possess, you have given it to me; I restore it all to you again, to be at your disposal, according to your will. Give me only a love for you, and the gift of your grace; then I am rich enough, and ask for nothing more. —St. Ignatius of Loyola

1. Ask God for light. I want to look at my day with God's eyes, not merely my own. 2. Give thanks. The day I have just lived is a gift from God. Be grateful for it. 3. Review the day. I carefully look back on the day just completed, being guided by the Holy Spirit. 4. Face your shortcomings. I face up to what is wrong-in my life and in me. 5. Look toward the day to come. I ask where I need God in the day to

Zdepasto i grbavo deblo drveta nikada ne bi povjerovalo da može postati statua, zadivljujuće umjetničko djelo, i nikada se ne bi podložilo dlijetu kipara, koji svojim genijem proniče što sve može načiniti od tog debla

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

For the love of God, do not be careless or tepid. For if tautness breaks the bow, idleness breaks the soul. Try to maintain a holy and discreet ardor in work and in the pursuit of learning as well as of virtue. With one as with the other, one energetic act is worth a thousand that are listless, and what a lazy man cannot accomplish in many years an energetic man usually achieves in a short time. —St. Ignatius Loyola, The Letters of St. Ignatius of Loyola, William

Todos os que exerceram influência na marcha da humanidade, todos, sem excepção, adquiriram tal capacidade e poder por estarem disponíveis para o destino. Isto aplica-se tanto a Moisés como ao Buda, a Napoleão ou a Bismark. Qual a onda ao serviço da qual cada um se põe, ou o polo a partir do qual é conduzido, não está ao seu alcance determiná-lo. Se Bismark tivesse compreendido os social-democratas e acolhido as suas concepções, teria agido como uma pessoa esperta, mas não teria sido um homem do destino. O mesmo se passou com Napoleão, com César, com Loyola, com todos!

Consideremos el sermón que Cristo nuestro Señor hace a todos sus siervos y amigos, encomendándoles que a todos quieran ayudar en traerlos, primero a suma pobreza espiritual y, si su divina majestad fuere servida y los quisiere eligir no menos a la pobreza actual; segundo, a deseo de oprobios y menosprecios, porque destas dos cosas se sigue la humildad. De manera que sean tres escalones: el primero, pobreza contra riqueza; el segundo, oprobio o menosprecio contra el honor mundano; el tercero, humildad contra la soberbia; y destos tres escalones induzgan a todas las otras virtudes.

Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings and emotions). All of these are involved in the choices we make, but the engine that drives the train is the affective power. The traditional word for it is “heart.

En los que proceden de bien en mejor, el buen ángel toca a la tal ánima dulce, leve y suavemente, como gota de agua que entra en una esponja; y el malo toca agudamente y con sonido y inquietud, como cuando la gota de agua cae sobre la piedra. Y a los que proceden de mal en peor tocan los sobredichos espíritus contrario modo.

Primer modo para hacer una buena elección: El primer punto es proponer delante la cosa sobre que quiero hacer elección, así como un oficio o beneficio para tomar o dejar, o de otra cualquier cosa que cae en elección mutable. Segundo. Es menester tener por obyecto el fin para que soy criado, que es para alabar a Dios nuestro Señor y salvar mi ánima; y con esto hallarme indiferente, sin afección alguna desordenada. Quinto. Después que así he discurrido y raciocinado a todas partes sobre la cosa propósita, mirar dónde más la razón se inclina; y así, según la mayor moción racional, y no moción alguna sensual, se debe hacer deliberación sobre la cosa propósita.

En toda buena elección, en cuanto es de nuestra parte, el ojo de nuestra intención debe ser simple, solamente mirando para lo que soy criado, es a saber, para alabanza de Dios nuestro Señor y salvación de mi ánima, y así, cualquier cosa que yo eligiere debe ser a que me ayude para al fin para que soy criado, no ordenando ni trayendo el fin al medio, mas el medio al fin. Porque primero hemos de poner por obyecto querer servir a Dios, que es el fin, y secundario tomar beneficio o casarme, si más me conviene, que es el medio para el fin; así ninguna cosa me debe mover a tomar los tales medios o a privarme dellos, sino sólo el servicio y alabanza de Dios nuestro Señor y salud eterna de mi ánima.

Ignatius de Loyola came to the conclusion that the only way his "church" could survive was by enforcing the canons and doctrines on the temporal power of the pope and the Roman Catholic institution; not by just destroying the physical life of the people alone as the Dominican priests were doing through the Inquisition, but by infiltration and penetration into every sector of life. Protestantism must be conquered and used for the benefit of the popes. That was Ignatius de Loyola's personal proposal, among others, to Pope Paul III. Jesuits immediately went to work secretly infiltrating ALL the Protestant groups including their families, places of work, hospitals, schools, colleges, etc. Today, the Jesuits have almost completed that mission.

You ask me how I manage to put some balance into my life. This is a question I ask myself, as each day I am swallowed up more by my work.… So often I feel I am on a rock, battered from all sides by rising waves. The only escape route is heavenwards. For an hour or a day, I let the waves beat upon the rock; I stop looking out to the horizon and only look upwards towards God.

In the course of the conversation mention was made of the Blessed Virgin. The stranger remarked that though he admitted that the Mother of Christ had conceived without detriment to her virginal purity, yet he could not believe that after the conception of her divine Son she was still a virgin. He was so obstinate in holding this opinion, that no amount of reasoning on the part of Ignatius could force him to abandon it. Shortly afterward the Saracen rode on, leaving the pilgrim to his own reflections. These were not of the most peaceful nature. He was sorely troubled as he thought over the conduct of his recent fellow-traveler, and felt that he had but poorly acquitted himself of his duty of honoring the Mother of God. The longer his mind thought upon the matter, the more his soul was filled with indignation against himself for having allowed the Saracen to speak as he had done of the Blessed Virgin, and for the lack of courage he fancied he had shown in not at once resenting the insult. He consequently felt impelled by a strong impulse to hasten after him and slay the miscreant for the insulting language he had used.

El primer punto. Es necesario que todas cosas de las cuales queremos hacer elección sean indiferentes o buenas en sí, y que militen dentro de la santa madre Iglesia jerárquica, y no malas ni repugnantes a ella. Segundo. Hay unas cosas que caen debajo de elección inmutable, así como son sacerdocio, matrimonio, etc.; hay otras que caen debajo de elección mutable, así como son tomar beneficios o dejarlos, tomar bienes temporales o lanzallos. Tercero. En la elección inmutable, que ya una vez se ha hecho elección, no hay más que eligir, porque no se puede desatar; así como es matrimonio, sacerdocio, etc. Sólo es de mirar que, si no ha hecho elección debida y ordenadamente sin afecciones desordenadas, arrepintiéndose, procure hacer buena vida en su elección.

Fifth Rule. The fifth: In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

Age quod agis” is a Latin phrase that means “do what you are doing” or “concentrate on the task at hand”. It is often translated as “do well whatever you do”. The phrase is attributed to Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order. It is used as a reminder to focus on one task at a time and not to spread one's moral efforts too thin. Pope St. John XXIII also used the phrase to mean "do not be concerned with any other matter than the task in hand". Often translated as "do well whatever you do". Literally translated, it means "do what you do"; figuratively it means "keep going, because you are inspired or dedicated to do so". This is the motto of several Roman Catholic schools. It was used by Pope St. John XXIII in the sense of "do not be concerned with any other matter than the task in hand"; he was allaying worry of what would become of him in the future: his sense of "age quod agis" was "joy" regarding what is presently occurring and "detachment" from concern of the future.

Segundo modo para hacer una buena elección: La primera es que aquel amor que me mueve y me hace eligir la tal cosa descienda de arriba, del amor de Dios. De forma que el que elige sienta primero en sí que aquel amor más o menos que tiene a la cosa que elige, es sólo por su Criador y Señor. La segunda, mirar a un hombre que nunca he visto ni conocido, y deseando yo toda su perfección, considerar lo que yo le diría que hiciese y eligiese para mayor gloria de Dios nuestro Señor y mayor perfección de su ánima; y, haciendo yo asimismo, guardar la regla que para el otro pongo. La tercera, considerar, como si estuviese en el artículo de la muerte, la forma y medida que entonces querría haber tenido en el modo de la presente elección; y, reglándome por aquella, haga en todo la mi determinación. La cuarta, mirando y considerando cómo me hallaré el día del juicio, pensar cómo entonces querría haber deliberado acerca la cosa presente; y la regla que entonces querría haber tenido, tomarla ágora.

El enemigo mucho mira si una ánima es gruesa o delgada; y si es delgada, procura de más la adelgazar en extremo, para más la turbar y desbaratar. Verbi gracia, si ve que una ánima no consiente en sí pecado mortal ni venial ni aparencia alguna de pecado deliberado, entonces el enemigo, cuando no puede hacerla caer en cosa que parezca pecado, procura de hacerla formar pecado adonde no es pecado, así como en una palabra o pensamiento mínimo. Si la ánima es gruesa, el enemigo procura de engrosarla más. Verbi gracia, si antes no hacía caso de los pecados veniales, procurará que de los mortales haga poco caso; y si algún caso hacía antes, que mucho menos o ninguno haga agora.

The photo was published in the majority of Brazilian newspapers in a full-page spread when CNN and all the television channels of the world broadcast the scene, they froze it for a few seconds. Or minutes, hours, I don't know. For me time has infinite duration--I don't know how to measure it by normal parameters. Trying doesn't even interest me. From the World Trade Center buildings, minutes, prior to their collapse--which would appear as a perfect and planned implosion--only a grayish-blue and black vertical lines can be seen. Like a modernist painting--by whom? Which artist painted lines? Mondrian? No, not Mondrian, he painted squares, rectangles. Anyway, in the picture, the man is falling head first. his body straight, one of his legs bent. Did he jump? Slip? Did he faint and then fall? He probably lost consciousness because of the height, the smoke. He fell. He disappeared from the scene, from life, from the city. A million tons of rubble buried him soon after. Nobody knows his name. Impossible for his family to have him identified. He's an unknown who entered into history at the twenty-first century's first great moment of horror--the history of the world, the United States, communications, photography. Without anyone knowing who he is. And nobody will ever know. We'll only have suppositions, families who'll swear that he was theirs. But was he Brazilian, American, Latino, Chinese, Italian, Irish--what? He could have been anything, but now he's nothing. One among thousands gone forever. And, while we're on the subject, what about the firemen who supposedly became such heroes that day--can you name a single one?

Some of the most outstanding spiritual directors in Christian history - like Catherine of Siena and Ignatius of Loyola - either never had an office or orders, or did much of their work of direction before they held such an office. Generally speaking, effective spiritual directors are discovered by the Christian community; they do not put themselves forward without first having others seek their help. Because priests and ministers stand out publicly in the churches as spiritual leaders, most often it is they who have been sought out as spiritual directors. But ordination is not necessary (nor, as we shall see, sufficient) for effective spiritual direction.

The things done, the victories gained over circumstances by St. Bernard or St. Joan of Arc, by St. Catherine of Siena, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Teresa, George Fox, are hardly to be explained unless these great spirits had indeed a closer, more intimate, more bracing contact than their fellows with that Life "which is the light of men.

Dosiahol svoju slobodu, no sloboda nie je sama osebe cieľom.

No plakať kvôli sebe alebo kvôli druhým je vždy "prejavom životaschopnosti, katarzie, prežívania utrpenia", tvrdí španielsky psychiater Juan José Lopez Ibor.

...pred pätnástimi rokmi sa oslobodil OD niečoho, tentoraz má získať slobodu PRE niečo.

Svätí sa nerodia ako svätí, stávajú sa nimi a vo chvíli slabosti pijú z elixíru hrdinov, vôľou upevňujúc svoju kolísavú vieru "Iba ten, kto skúša nezmyselné, je schopný dobyť nemožné." (Unamuno)

my struggles with prayer; that's impossible and not even

Jeho vôľa je opantaná niečím silnejším, ako je ona sama. Je to "zmenená vášeň", ktorá našla nový zmysel.

On však sám pokračoval po svojej ceste: po ceste, ktorú mu neponúkol osud, ale ktorú si vybral on sám.

Podobne ako Don Quijote "upokojil sa a pokračoval vo svojej ceste bez toho, aby sa vydal po inej ako tej, po ktorej chcel ísť jeho kôň, mysliac si, že v tom spočíva sila dobrodružstiev.

...mystik Rabíndranáth Thákur, nám vie pomôcť pochopiť tento Inigov vnútorný záblesk: "Keď hovorí príroda, zháša slová v našich srdciach a ako odpoveď za to od nás žiada evokujúcu hudbu nevysloviteľného.

Celý život sa bude nechávať zaplavovať a viesť tými vnútornými poryvmi a sústavne bude hľadať svoju hnaciu silu, ktorú bude nazývať "hnutie mysle" - kínesis, ako by povedali starí grécki askéti -, hoci veľmi skoro zistí, že exitujú aj hodiny vyprahnutosti, keď nič nemá zmysel a v ktorých skutočná láska, láska spočívajúca v službe, závisí iba od vôle.

Jeden aj druhý spravia zo svojej cesty všeobecné učenie, pretože sú presvedčení, že rozhodujúci boj sa odohráva v ľudskom srdci...

Aquí hay un joven que nació de una mujer campesina... Trabajó en el taller de un carpintero hasta que cumplió los treinta años... Nunca fue propietario de una casa. Nunca tuvo familia. Nunca fue a la universidad... No tenía otra credencial más que su propia persona. Mientras que aún era joven la ola de opiniones de la gente se volvió en su contra. Sus amigos lo dejaron... Fue clavado en la cruz, rodeado de dos ladrones... Cuando murió lo pusieron en una tumba prestada... Han pasado diecinueve siglos y hoy él es el líder del pilar del progreso. Y estoy en lo cierto cuando digo que todos los ejércitos que han marchado y todos los reyes que han reinado, todos ellos juntos, no han afectado a la vida de la raza humana tanto como lo ha hecho esta única Vida Solitaria". ANÓNIMO

¿Qué desafío me presenta Jesús? ¡Sé discípulo! Preocúpate por los demás más de lo que parezca necesario. Confía en otros más de lo debido. Sirve a otros más de lo conveniente. Espera más de lo que otros piensan es posible. ANÓNIMO

Dios tiene dos moradas. Una es en el cielo; la otra, en los corazones buenos y agradecidos. ISAAK WALTON

Goethe’s Faust, Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship

they got one in the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. It “was really Jim [Bopp]’s brainchild,” Richard L. Hasen, an expert on election law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles told The New York Times. “He has manufactured these cases to present certain questions to the Supreme Court in a certain order and achieve a certain result,

¿Qué me impide borrar el pasado mediante el sacramento de la Reconciliación? Crea

Não a utilizamos. Levei alguns meses perplexo, até a vergonha tomar conta de mim. Senti que deveria ter atravessado o hall e me colocado ao lado do professor. Tivéssemos todos feito isso, algo poderia ter mudado. Os gestos decisivos faltaram em bons momentos de nossa história.

Escuchar una sucesión de acontecimientos que alcanzan su meta nos ayuda a comprendernos a nosotros mismos; nos impulsa a confiar en que, al igual que sucede con la vida de los personajes que se nos narra, al final se nos revelará el sentido del aparente caos en el que vivimos.

Tenemos también consciencia de que cada paso que damos puede acercarnos tanto como alejarnos de ese Dios siempre mayor, y a la vez más íntimo que nuestra propia intimidad. Si lo agotáramos, no sería Dios, sino una proyección de nuestras necesidades, ideas o deseos. Él no se deja tomar, y por ello peregrinamos sin cesar. De ahí nuestro éxodo y nuestro éxtasis.

Perhaps some of them chose Schwester Kasimira's way, glorying in their discomfort because they knew that Jesus Christ hadn't stayed at the Ritz either. Perhaps there were unknown saints, Saint Ignatius Loyolas queuing at bus stops and Saint Augustines of Hippo giving up their seats on the tram. The thought made him briefly happy, seeming consecrate some of the aridity of his soldiering.

The King... was so good and kind, that although he could do whatever he wished and had whatever he could desire-riches, joy, the love of those around him-he was not satisfied to have these good things for himself alone. He wanted his subjects to be happy, too.

Whenever I come to you I come to help, even when I do not speak much or show all the love that is in my heart. On these days I am giving those I love the money with which they can pay their debts.

Afinal, recebi compulsória em meu primeiro emprego, o de professor. O normal era que os indicadores dos serviços de informação me excluíssem como indesejável. No entanto, recebi nota plena e me deixaram escolher. O que mostra o descontrole, mascarado sob rígido controle.

Espíritu del Señor resucitado que envió al Santísimo a cuidar de sus amigos con sus manos aún heridas y su corazón perforado: haz que sea solícito con mis amigos incluso con mi toque temeroso y mi espíritu cansado. Abre mis ojos para ver el don que en realidad son; abre mis oídos para escuchar lo bueno que en verdad desean decir. Prepara mi espíritu para sentir lo que ellos desean que sienta. Y así como fortaleciste el corazón de Jesús cuando soportó la falta de entendimiento y la traición, aliéntame ahora mientras descubro cómo me ha ido al arriesgar mi ser para permanecer fiel a quien soy y estar abierto a dar y recibir amor. Amén. [v.d.t.]

No hay zarzas ardientes ni voces ensordecedoras que vienen del monte Sinaí en el examen. Dios aparece en el tranquilo susurro de nuestros recuerdos, pensamientos y sentimientos guiados por el Espíritu. ¡Qué realidad tan maravillosa!

En la perspectiva ignaciana, el pecado incluye todo el abanico de ideas, sueños, deseos, anhelos y ansias que evitan que seamos la clase de persona que somos llamados a ser. San Ignacio los llama “afecciones desordenadas”. Se trata de deseos que están, literalmente, “desordenados”; fuera de orden, fuera de lugar. Un deseo razonable de ganar dinero se convierte en codicia desmedida. Un anhelo de amor se convierte en lujuria desenfrenada. Las afecciones desordenadas son prioridades que se salieron de su cauce normal.

Necesito la gracia de Dios para hacer algo que valga la pena. Ni siquiera puedo levantarme a la mañana y enfrentar el día sin su ayuda.

En realidad, pedimos tres cosas: 1) gracia; 2) conocer; 3) rechazar los pecados. “Gracia” significa “don”. Rezamos para que Dios nos dé el don de ver a través de los ojos de Dios. Otra forma de expresar esto es que le pedimos a Dios que nos dé el don de ver los dones que Dios nos da.

Oamenii lumii, care se lasă conduși de sentimentele pe care lumea le inspiră, iubesc și urmăresc cu multă însuflețire onoarea, faima, strălucirea unui nume mare printre semeni.

All in the golden city are like me. There is no envy among them. They all love one another, and are glad because they see how much I love them, everyone.

They are sent here for a short time only, with a work to do. When that work is done, or the end of time for doing it is come, they are taken hence. Now, many of these exiles forget that they are in exile and try to make themselves at home here. They neglect the task they were set to do, get together whatever will make them comfortable, and think of nothing but enjoying themselves.

El que lleva a Dios en su corazón lleva el Cielo con él dondequiera que va