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| St. Ignatius of Loyola at Manresa |
An excerpt of Ignatius',
Rules for Right Thinking with the Church
To have a great esteem for the teachings of the Fathers and theologians. The former, like St. Jerome, St. Augustine, St. Gregory, have laboured above all to form the hearts of Christians; the latter, following the course opened by St. Thomas, St. Bonaventure, etc, have had for their aim to cure the errors of the times, and to enlighten the faithful with exact notions and well defined dogmas. Coming in an age succeeding the Fathers, they have had, like them, the Holy Scriptures and the writings of antiquity to instruct them. They have had besides the ordinances and definitions of councils, the rules and constitutions of the holy Church; and the Spirit of God has powerfully assisted them in profiting by all these resources in order to direct the faithful in the ways of salvation.
Link (here) to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
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St Ignatius of Loyola: “…had for their aim to cure the errors of the times, and to enlighten the faithful…”
I ask myself if they were successful in their aims. If so, how do we reconcile the current existence with their success? If not, then what do we learn from their failure?
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