Impairing relationships, 248
Indifference. See Detachment
Ingenuity, 365–68
Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality (Silf), 63, 95, 100
In Pursuit of Love (Genovesi), 216
Islam, 81, 138
Ivens, Michael, S.J., 309, 320, 330
James, William, 18
Jay, Claude, S.J., 241
Jeremiah: 29:11, 138
Jesuit Order/Jesuits. See Society of Jesus
Jesuit Refugee Service, 195–96, 198, 277, 303
Jesuits, The: Their Spiritual Doctrine and Practice (de Guibert), 2–3
Jesuit Saints and Martyrs (Tylenda), 100
Jesus of Nazareth: “blessed are the poor in spirit,” 209–11; blind beggar and, 57–58, 340; coming to people, 85; as craftsman or carpenter, 372; desire for holiness and, 77; Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises and, 395–96; as friend, 108–10; imitation of, 176, 197, 207–8, 295; love of, 81–82; meditation on life of Christ, 20, 292–93, 295–98, 299–304; ministry to the poor, 203; obedience and, 267; parable of the Prodigal Son, 91; parables of, 119–20; points of entry into the life of, 300; on the poor, 196; preaching in the synagogue, 156–60; promise of “hundredfold” return, 233; as religious man, 45; the “rich young man” and, 179–80, 186; rules to disciples, 135; Second Week of the Exercises and, 147; Sermon on the Mount, 205; on sinfulness and the Good Samaritan, 89–90; speaking to on the cross (colloquy), 168; story of the storm at sea, 147; suffering of, 294, 295–98; Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises and, 295–98; unmarried state of, 224; “vowed life” and emulation of, 176; weeping, 300; as the Word made flesh (incarnation), 8, 119; words after the Resurrection, 223
Job, Book of: 10:1, 123
Jogues, St. Isaac, 25, 271, 296–97
John, Gospel of: 9:2, 287; 14:9, 163
John III, King of Portugal, 249, 250
John of the Cross, St., 66
John Paul II, Pope, 274, 362
Johnson, Elizabeth, C.S.J., 137
Joseph, St., 373
Journaling, 170
Joyce, James, 4
Juana, regent of Spain, 214
Julius III, Pope, 22
Kane, Jim, S.J., 106
Kavanaugh, John, S.J., 182
Keating, Thomas, O.C.S.O., 165
Keenan, James F., S.J., 89–90, 258
Kennedy, John F., 280
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 44, 45
1 Kings: 19:12, 133, 356
2 Kings: 5:1–19, 67–68
Knowing oneself, 339–40. See also Identity; Vocation
Kolodiejchuk, Brian, M.C., 139
Kolvenbach, Peter-Hans, S.J., 98
La Colombière, St. Claude, S.J., 165, 378
Laínez, Diego, S.J., 17, 240–41
Langford, Jeremy, 349
Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The, 39–40
Lectio divina, 155–62; action, 159–60; alternate method, 160–62; finding time for, 350; four-step process, 156–60; meaning of, 155; meditation, 157–58; prayer, 158–59; reading, 156–57
Lee, Peggy, 64
Leonard, Richard, S.J., 137, 142, 290–92
Lewis, C. S., 70, 190
Liebert, Elizabeth, 58
Listening: compassionate, 227–28; “faith sharing” and, 254–58; for God’s voice, 126–29, 356; Ignatius Loyola on, 257; obedience as, 267–71
“Living rules,” 25, 194
Loneliness, 130–31, 133–34, 226, 301–2
Lonsdale, David, 309, 316, 320, 345, 351
Lord, Daniel, S.J., 210
Lord of the Rings (Tolkein), 189
Love: chastity and, 216, 217–23, 227–30, 270; commitment and, 224; six chaste acts of love, 227–30; freedom and detachment and, 223, 229; humility and “three ways of loving,” 207; Ignatius’s dictum on, 197, 220, 227, 229; Jesuits in love, 224; leadership and, 364, 368–69; learning to, 27; owning, 223; Pedro Arrupe on, 218–19; praying for loved ones, 230; value of in Jesuit training, 368–69. See also God’s love
Lowney, Chris, 341, 347, 364, 369
Loyola, St. Ignatius: asceticism and, 178, 187–88; Autobiography, 12, 23; battle as key metaphor for, 189; being spiritual and religious, 50; character, 217; companions of, 8, 15, 22; composition of place, the Nativity scene, 149; on conscience, 202; Constitutions, 16, 21–23, 135, 240; contemplating the night sky, 17; contemplative attitude throughout day and, 350; death of, 16; decision making and haircut, 307–12; on decision-making of superiors, 272–73; on deeds as manifestation of love, 197; on desire, 63; dictum on love, 197, 220, 227, 229; the discerning mule and, 325; divesting of possessions, 186–87; the examen and, 87–97; feast day of, 271; finding God in nature, 171, 172; founding of Society ofJesus, 15–16; Francis Xavier and, 241–43, 260; on friendship, 254; friends of, 237–43, 244, 248–50; “gift of tears,” 302; God as the Almighty Artisan, 383; God as the center of his life, 28; identity of, 1; on indifference, 319; inexplicable feelings during prayer and, 132; ingenuity and leadership, 365; initial conversion, 51, 52–53, 77, 186, 225, 317; Inquisition and, 15, 54; on judging intentions not actions, 235; on lectio divina, 155, 161; letters of, 23–24, 237, 239, 242–43, 249, 369; life of, 11–19, 52–53, 237–43; on listening, 257; loquela (speech) from God, 127; in Manresa, 187; as mystic, 13–14, 18, 70, 309; ordination of, 16; on “overloading,” 357; path of moderation taken by, 310; perception of, 17–18; poverty and, 176, 186, 195, 201; prayer and, 145–46; quote on going forward by different roads, 145, 384; reliance on God and, 378; Rubens’s painting, 17; Simon Rodrigues and, 248–50; simple life and, 238; sin of ingratitude and, 264; Spiritual Exercises and, 9, 14, 19–21, 51, 62, 75, 81; Two Standards meditation and, 188–90; “union of hearts and minds,” 251; women and, 214; writing, prayer, and guidance for, 22
Luke: 1:26–28, 131; 1:30, 68; 2:10, 69; 2:52, 372; 4:16–30, 156–60; 5:10, 69; 8:22–25, 147; 9:58, 176; 10:29–37, 119; 15:3–10, 80–81; 15:11–32, 91; 18:21, 179; 22:42, 176
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 368
Macmurray, John, 39
Magis, 369–71
Maimonides, 44
Main, John, 165
Making Choices in Christ (Tetlow), 150, 312
Mariette in Ecstasy (Hansen), 49–50
Mark, Gospel of: 1:29–31, 216; 3:32, 176; 4, 119; 10:22, 179–80; 10:46–52, 57–58; 12:41–44, 201
Marriage, 61, 176, 214, 216–17, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 231, 247, 253, 258, 261, 275–76, 279, 283, 307, 333, 337–38, 340, 342, 349, 377
Martin, James, S.J.: at America magazine, 278, 288, 348; bad decision made by, 330–32; celibacy and, 130, 222–23; colloquy and, 168; confusion about God, 42–43; contemplation of the storm at sea, 152–55; David Donovan as spiritual director, 6 (see also Donovan, David); death of friend and Path of Return to God, 37–38; decision to enter Jesuits, 314–15, 342, 345; decision to stay or leave the Jesuits, 276–79, 305; desire for priesthood and, 59–62; directed retreat of, 106–10; divesting of possessions, 179, 204; entering the novitiate, 178–80; falling in love and, 224–25, 276; father’s illness and death, 78–79, 204, 283–84, 285; friendship and, 244, 251–54; at General Electric, 43, 181, 269–70, 314, 343, 347–48, 368; God as the Great Problem Solver and, 37; Ignatian spirituality and growth, 392–93; incompletion and dissatisfaction, feelings of, 43; intense joy, experience of, 66; as Jesuit novice in Boston, 6, 110–14, 392; job at packaging plant, 352–53; loneliness and, 130–31, 133–34, 205–6, 301–4; Loyola University, Chicago, ministry, and examen, 92–94; mother and, lesson of Presupposition, 236; in Nairobi, Kenya, 83–85, 195–201, 205–6, 209–11, 219, 276–77, 303, 331–32; nature prayer and, 171–72; obedience to decision to delay theological studies, 276–79; Off-Broadway play and, 39–40, 101, 222–23; ordination of, 75; personality test results and, 383; prayer and, 103–14, 115, 129; relationship with God, 81; seeing God in suffering, 287–89; return to Campion Center, 387–88; self-acceptance and, 38384; Spiritual Exercises and, 293, 298–304; temptations
that come to, 335; uncommon longings, 71–72; writing career, 278
Maslow, Abraham, 56
Mass, 169; daily, 112
Matrix, The (film), 337
Matthew, Gospel of: 13:33, 355; 25:40, 196
Maxwell, William, 131
Mead, Margaret, 361
Memories: during prayer, 130–32
Merton, Thomas, 34, 43, 106, 165, 166, 293, 314, 342
Messiaen, Olivier, 173
Metz, Johannes Baptist, 206–7
Meyer, Dick, 363
“Ministry of presence,” 228
Mission, The (film), 370
Mitford, Nancy, 46
Monastic orders, 8, 15; “vowed life,” 175–76, 186
Moonstruck (film), 226
Morality, 207
Moses, 118, 140, 162
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Kolodiejchuk), 139
Murray, John Courtney, S.J., 190, 274–75
Mysticism: Auden’s experience, 73–74; definition, 69; everyday, 69; Ignatius Loyola as mystic, 13–14, 18, 70; uncommon longings and, 69–72
Nadal, Jerónimo, S.J., 8, 18, 311, 350, 351, 354
National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, 297
National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped, 379
New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, The (Downey, ed.), 162
New Yorker cartoon, 259, 354
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 44
19th Annotation Retreat or the Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life, 19–20
Nixon, Richard M., 274
No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (Novak), 45
Norris, Kathleen, 175, 266
North American College, 6
Norton Simon Museum, California, 17
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Barnes), 67
Nouwen, Henri, 65, 183
Novak, Michael, 45
Obedience, 174, 175, 176, 266–84; acceptance and, 268; accepting the unacceptable, 304; apostolic, 269; benefits, 270–71; in corporate world, 269; in everyday life, 283–84; everyday life of a Jesuit, 271–73; freedom and, 270; Jesuit joke, 268; as listening, 267–71; Pedro Arrupe and, 300; religious superior and, 266–68, 271–73; as surrendering to God’s will, 267, 271, 279–85, 304; surrendering to the future, 283–85, 297, 304; two stories about, 273–79; Walter Ciszek and, 280–82
O’Keefe, Vincent, S.J., 219
O’Malley, John W., S.J., 20, 24, 186, 187, 196, 213, 239, 247, 270
One Jesuit’s Spiritual Journey (Arrupe), 211–12
On the Waterfront (film), 26
Otto, Rudolf, 69
“Our Father” (Lord’s Prayer), 169–70
Our Town (Wilder), 101–2
Out of Africa (Dineson), 75, 303
Padberg, John W., S.J., 9, 264
Papacy: Jesuit’s fourth vow and, 270; obedience to, 274
Paris, Je T’Aime (film), 389–90
Patience, 386–87
Paul, St., 166, 297, 394; Damascus experience, 313, 315
Paul III, Pope, 16, 22, 196
Paulists, 48
Paul VI, Pope, 275
Payne, Alexander, 389–90
“Peak experiences,” 56
Pennington, M. Basil, O.C.S.O., 165, 166
1 Peter: 5:8, 335 Peter, St., 216
“Pied Beauty” (Hopkins), 73
Polish, Daniel, 286
Poverty, 177–212; as cause of “great delight,” 178; in the Constitutions, 186; contemporary Jesuit life and, 193–95; dehumanizing involuntary, 197; in East Africa, 195–201, 205, 209–11; Pedro Arrupe and, 211–12; getting to know the poor, 204–5; as imitation of Christ, 176, 178; Jesus on the poor, 196; learning about, 198; relationship with God and, 199–201; remembering the poor, 362–63; “rich young man” of the Gospels, 179–80; simple life and, 177–212; of the spirit, 205–11, 289; voluntary, 174, 195, 197, 270; vows of, 175–76. See also Simple life
Poverty of the Spirit (Metz), 206–7
Power and Secret of the Jesuits, The (Fülöp-Miller), 367
Prayer: anger in, 123–24; answer to “Why doesn’t God answer my prayer?,” 98–99; “apophatic,” 162, 163; author Martin and, 103–14, 115, 129; being honest, 122–26; Burghardt’s definition, 8, 86, 114; celebration of Mass, 169; centering prayer (Third Method), 162–67; changing through, 136–39; colloquy, 167–68; communal, 169; Contemplation to Attain Divine Love, 395–96; contemplative, 112–13; Daily Office, 111, 169; David Donovan on the Rosary, 143–45; decision making and, 316–17, 319–20; deepening, 27; definitions, 113–14; desire arising during, 133; directed retreat, 106–10; emotions arising during, 132, 152, 168, 301–2; the examen, 87–97, 391; finding time for God and you, 348–51; four weeks of The Spiritual Exercises and, 20–21; on the gifts God has given you, 76; Ignatian contemplation, 145–55; Ignatian traditions, 143–73; imagining yourself speaking with God, and God’s reply, 128–29; as intentional time with God, 116; Jesuits as contemplatives in action, 7–8; journaling, 170; “katapatic,” 162, 163; lectio divina, 155–62; listening and hearing God, 126–29; for loved ones, 230; meditation on life of Christ, 20, 292–93, 295–98, 299–304; memories arising during, 130–32, 133–34; music, 173; nature prayer, 170–72; no “right” way, 96, 143–45; for our desires, 62; petitionary prayer, 103–5, 113, 124, 126–27, 199–200; physical feelings arising during, 132–33; prayer from Teilhard de Chardin, 164; praying the Rosary, 143–45, 169; Quaker “gathered silence,” 40; reflecting on daily life, 133; repetition, 153; resistance during, 161–62; rote prayers, 104, 106, 169; sadness in, 125; sexual desire and, 125–26; silence and, 139–41; on sinfulness, 76; Suscipe, 396–97; as transformative, 303–4; ways of hearing God’s voice in, 130–34; what it is, 110–14; for what you desire, 343; work as, 173
Preaching to the Converted (Leonard), 142
Prejean, Sister Helen, C.S.J., 117
Presupposition, 234–36, 249, 256
Pride, 180, 210
Professions of Faith (Langford and Martin, eds.), 349
Progress Paradox, The (Easterbrook), 182
Quaker “gathered silence,” 40
Rahner, Karl, S.J., 49, 69, 113, 119, 338, 374
Rebecca (film), 327
Rejadell, Teresa, 358
Relationships. See Friendship and relationships
Religion: change and relationship with, 138; humility and, 48; image of God and, 137; negatives and positives, 44–50; Path of Independence, 32–34; “real” vs. “illusory,” 39; rule-based, 135; search for perfection in as futile, 34; social dimension of human nature and, 49; spiritual but not religious (SBNR), 44–50; “spiritual home,” 40, 41; spirituality and, 28, 50
Religious ofJesus and Mary, 283
Ribadaneira, Pedro, 171
Ricci, Matteo, 26, 365–66
Robinson, Marilynne, 77
Rodrigues, Simon, 241, 248–50
Rodríguez, St. Alphonsus, 99–100, 244–46, 372
Roman Catholic Church, 26, 48, 51, 361, 364; celibacy and clergy, 216–17, 221; Code of Canon Law, 135; communal prayer and, 169; First Communion, 245; founding of Jesuits and, 15–16; Jesuits in clerical office and, 46, 191; Mass, 111, 169; sexual-abuse crisis, 33, 215, 221; suppression and restoration of Jesuits, 18, 19
Rosary, 143–45, 169
Roser, Isabel, 214
Rubens, Peter Paul, 17
Rule of St. Benedict, 21
Rumi, 44
Sacrament of the Present Moment, The (de Caussade), 95, 285
Sadness, 125
Saints and Sanctity (Burghardt), 377
Salmerón, Alfonso, S.J., 241
“Salt Doll, The,” 388
Salvadoran Jesuits, martyrdom of, 25
Satan, 188–90, 278, 294; masquerading as a good spirit, 336–37; three ways the “enemy” works, 332–36; what is “of God” and what is “not of God,” 326–29. See also Two Standards
Saying no, 357–58
Schurhammer, Georg, S.J., 240
Schwan, Marie, C.S.J., 170, 344
Screwtape Letters, The (Lewis), 190
Second Vatican Council, 272; “Declaration on Religious Freedom,” 275; “universal call to holiness,” 341
Self-awareness and self-acceptance, 339–40 364, 365, 378–88
Self-care, 187–88, 310, 357–58
Selfless Way of Christ, The (Nouwen), 65
Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton), 34, 43, 314, 342
Sex and sexuality, 58, 125–26, 174–75; abuse scandals, 215, 221; celibacy and, 130; chastity and, 216, 220–21, 227–30; purity and, 214. See also Chastity
Shakers, 173
Shelton, Charles M., S.J., 226–27, 241, 243, 246, 248, 252, 253, 259, 260, 261
She Who Is (Johnson), 137
Silence, 139–41
“Silencing,” 275
Silf, Margaret, 60, 63, 95, 100, 140, 167, 343, 346
“Simple Heart, A” (Flaubert), 83, 100
Simple life, 7, 22, 27, 136, 174–212, 238, 279; closeness with God and, 195–201; consumerist culture, demands of, 181–86; contemporary Jesuit life and, 193–95; de Mello’s parable “The Diamond,” 177–78; distinguishing between needs and wants, 204; downward mobility, 201–3; freedom of, 203, 270, 279; humility and, 207–8; as imitation of Christ, 176; moderate asceticism, healthy poverty, 188; possessions and, 181, 202, 204; poverty and, 177–212; riches to honors to pride and, 188–92, 294, 361; the “rich young man” and, 179–80, 186, 202; three steps to achieving, 203–5