Today is the feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, still followed today, were inspired by his dramatic conversion experience.
The Excercises are the fountain of your spirituality and the matrix of your Constitutions, but they are also a gift that the Spirit of the Lord has made to the entire Church: it is for you to continue to make it a precious and efficacious instrument for spiritual growth of souls . . .
–Benedict XVI
February 21, 2008
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