Tomorrow,
we will celebrate the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the
Society of Jesus or the Jesuits. For the last eight days, we have been praying
that through his intercession we might obtain various graces to live more fully
our own lives as individuals and as a community. Today on the last day of the
novena, we make our own the prayer of Fr. Pedro Arrupe, himself a former
General of the Society of Jesus: “Lord,
meditating on ‘our way of proceeding’, I have discovered that the ideal way of
acting is your way of acting.
Give me
that sensus Christi that I may feel with your feelings, with the sentiments of
your heart, which basically are love for your Father and love for all men and
women. Teach me how to be compassionate to the suffering, the poor, the blind,
the lame and lepers. Teach us your way
so that it becomes our way today, so that we may come closer to the great idea
of St. Ignatius; to be companions of Jesus, collaborators in the work of redemption.”
Through the
intercession of St. Ignatius we pray for the grace to make Jesus’ way of
proceeding our way of proceeding, his way of acting our way of acting.
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