Por que a sociedade dos inacianos é duplamente inaciana
Doubly Ignatian because we have both St. Ignatius of Loyola and a saint he venerated as a role mode, St. Ignatius of Antioch, as the Society’s patrons
Deeply Ignatian because of the pivotal function of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises in focusing us:
Identity of purpose with that of Ignatius: “to the greater glory of God and the salvation of men”.
Identity of “fundamental principle” with that of Ignatius: man has been “created to praise, reverence and serve our Lord God, thereby saving his soul” (Spiritual Exercises) and thus glorifying God.
Ignatian because the Society’s mystique of chivalric asceticism and mysticism flows from the chivalric spirit that shaped the heart of Ignatius Loyola
Ignatian because of the influence of St. Ignatius’s Constitutiones and so many traditions of his Society venerated for centuries
Ignatian because of the equipping of Ignatians by an in-depth, rugged, lengthy, high quality equipping according to the traditional format laid out by St. Ignatius and his great successors, notably the Generals St. Francis Borgia and Fr. Aquaviva, from novitiate to tertianship
Ignatian due to the structure of the Society of Ignatians according to St. Ignatius Loyola’s inspiration: a corps of men focused for a global mission of defense and spread of the Catholic Faith.
With the sense of effectiveness that St. Ignatius compressed in the motto ad majorem Dei gloriam. Since “the love of Christ urges us” (2 Cor 5:14) to not only seek the eternal salvation of our own soul but that of as many others as possible, this impells us “to the greater: to the pursuit of excellence in equipping and action so as to choose the most effective means possible in the use of our time.
With the sense of urgency and militancy for the sake of the “Ecclesia Militans”. In the Spiritual Exercises the Ignatian finds a focus on an essential component of the Church’s traditional liturgy: history as a battlefield in which the Ecclesia Militans battles for man’s salvation against the merciless Satanic forces and their human allies, whether conscious or unconscious.
