Our collaboration with the laity flows from our personal relationships with Christ. We see ourselves as companions of Jesus, and we invite others to join with us, as friends in the Lord. Together we build up the body of Christ. Skip to content. About Us. The Jesuits. Jesuits draw on the rich tradition of Ignatian spirituality and reflection. That includes our work on behalf of global justice , peace, and dialogue. The Society was organized like a military troop, with strict discipline.
The main goals of the Jesuits were to educate people around the world about Catholicism, stop the spread of Protestantism, and convert people to…. The Jesuit order played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and eventually succeeded in converting millions around the world to Catholicism. Ignatian Contemplation is prayer with Scripture. It is meeting God through story. You become a participant in the story, and you continue in the story in your heart, mind, imagination, spirit and body after the reading ends.
The Jesuits are an apostolic religious community called the Society of Jesus. They are grounded in love for Christ and animated by the spiritual vision of their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, to help others and seek God in all things.
A Jesuit education forms well-rounded students with a passion for knowledge and personal growth. This is one of the main philosophies of Jesuit teaching: cura personalis, or the care for the whole person. Zynda emphasizes how comprehensive a Jesuit education is.
Shaped by their experiences with the poor and powerless, many Jesuits lean liberal, politically and theologically, and are more concerned with social and economic justice than with matters of doctrinal purity.
In such cases they remain only nominally Jesuit, as they lose active and passive voice within the Order and are no longer under the obedience of the Superior General. In the first Jesuit pope was elected, Pope Francis. Francis is the first Jesuit Pope and the first from a religious order since All priests are supposed to live simply, but members of religious orders take a specific vow of poverty.
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