 COMPANIONSHIP
They are persons who freely commit to serving God and neighbor, including the “OTHER” even if different in culture or religious belief…
DISCERNMENT
Ignatius considered it a process of examining and evaluating those movements of the spirit which provide consolation to the individual.
SPEX - (Spiritual Exercise)
An organized method of prayer through meditations and reflections divided into “Four Weeks”. The goal of the exercises is to help the retreatant come to an interior freedom appropriate to making the right choices in life and work.
_____- Are ways to go through a prayer experience to discover one’s deepest and _____most authentic desire, and to find the courage to act on it
_____ - Persons go through the SPEX in order to discover what God is hoping in _____them and for their lives because God’s project is written in the Human Heart.
_____ - The point of the SPEX is FREEDOM…
_____a. How does one become free in accord with his/her talents and limitations
_____b. How does one become free enough to respond the grace of God?
“MAGIS” or “MORE”
A key Jesuit Phrase which motivates a person to do and be “MORE” in one’s work and service;
_____ - Be more do you can do more, learn more so you can serve more
_____ - As far as Ignatius was concerned, these were the questions he had:
_____“What have I done for Christ? What am I going to do for Christ? “What _____might I do for Christ”
_____ - “What might I do?” is the MAGIS. What MORE…WHAT MORE..
HUMANISM -
A religious outlook in life that sees God immersed deeply in all human experiences / endeavors;
_____ - “Finding God In All Things” – this one phrase exemplifies Jesuit Spirituality, _____that is, the conviction that a person is invited to search for and find God in _____every moment of life, not just in explicitly religious situations
_____ - “Action-Reflection Cycle” (or Prayer-Action-Reflection)
_____ - Commitment to Human Dignity
_____ - Respect for Culture: basic reverence for the other person;
_____ - A basic sense that God is active in that other person as much as in me;
SERVICE
Where is the greatest need and the greatest possibility of service to people?
_____ - Confraternities of Lay People were founded to run the institutions so the _____companions could move on to meet other needs
EDUCATION
_____WHY DO JESUITS CONSIDER EDUCATION AS THEIR TO PRIORITY?
BECAUSE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO FORM YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE SOCIETY….
What is the “Unique or Distinct” characteristic of Jesuit Education?
“CURA PERSONALIS”
_____- Personal care in the classroom is emphasized
_____- Each person is to be considered an individual with special gifts, with _____weaknesses, with potentials, with life problems;
_____- Experience is one of the big things that the companions worked _____with…LEARNING THROUGH EXPERIENCE
_____- Theories are to be complimented with praxis
_____- Mind can liberate the heart and the heart can liberate the mind
EACH OF US HAS THAT CREATIVE ABILITY, SOME GIFT THAT WE CAN GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD.
WHETHER YOU’RE JESUIT, LAY PERSON, BUDDHIST, MUSLIM —— WE CAN ALL SHARE IN THE JESUIT VALUES BECAUSE —— JESUIT VALUES ARE UNIVERSAL VALUES..
SO WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR AN ATENEAN TO KNOW IGNATIUS?
It is in knowing that we can come to know his Universal Values. It is only in knowing these values that w can live them and share them in our simple way. And, it is only when we live and share these values that we can truly say…WE ARE ATENEANS….
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