December 12, 2006
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What is a Jesuit?
Thank you all for your responses! They were very helpful in my presentation, which went very well and people found to be very interesting and relevant. For those of you interested, here is what I feel a good, general definition of a Jesuit is, without going TOO in depth (there is much more). It is from our 32nd General Congregation (a big meeting that takes places every ten years or so):
[To be a Jesuit] is to know that one is a sinner,
yet called to be a companion of Jesus,
as Ignatius was, who begged the Blessed
Virgin to place him with her Son,
and who then saw the Father Himself
ask Jesus, carrying His cross,
to take this pilgrim into his company…”
“It is to engage, under the standard of the cross,
in the crucial struggle of our time
the struggle for faith
and that struggle for justice
which it includes.
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But your general definition leaves the reader wondering how that makes a Jesuit different from a devout/practicing Catholic?
“…to engage, under the standard of the cross, in the crucial struggle of our time…” Indeed, that is what we are all called to do.
If I’m clever enough, I hope I can work in some mention of the Jesuits in my German final today.
wow.
that is the best definition i have ever heard.
like i said earlier, Jesuits ROCK!!!
Interesting definition of a Jesuit, for sure. Really simplifies matters. Hope you have a great week!
I’M DONE!!! I kind of enjoyed the essay, actually.
And I didn’t really have to talk about the Counter Reformation and the Jesuits… but I did anyway! I kind of slid it in and then added a footnote to Lees, saying, “Oh come on, I had to put them in there somewhere.” Hehe! I am officially giddy and very much affected by the mint mocha frappuccino I quaffed just before the final. 
OH! And I just talked with my blonde-haired sister about summer options, and I’m thinking now about doing something totally random–going to intern at a national park! In particular, it’d be great to go to a battlefield and give historical tours. I’m really excited about the idea and I’m doing research on it. I already found something promising in Montana. How cool would this be???
Oh, those movies… heartbreakingly beautiful, all of it. Makes me want to be an elf and wear a gorgeous dress and live in Lothlorien. I’d be quite content just being one of Galadriel’s handmaids.
LOL!!! I believe it; awesome picture. Where do you find such random things?
I love that!!! I actually saw it when it played on TV last year; glad to see it’s on YouTube! Ah, cupcakes and chronicles… Very nice. Did you send it to the Cheese?
Thank you for your comments. It means a lot to me that people take the time to help me make sense of the whole situation! Hope your life is going swimmingly, and from your blog entries, it sounds as though it is! Keep updating, I like reading about what you’re doing.
jake, HI! sorry i didn’t get back earlier…..i don’t update nor read xanga much anymore. do you have a myspace? i update more often there.
yeah, i got my motorcycle license this Frühjahr. same goes for the actual bike. my mom got me one. *love my mum!* and i’m a huge MotoGP fan as you might be able to tell from all the motoGP stuff in that picture. hehe.
yesss, moving to milan in april. I’m learnin italian to eventually take part of the application-test to get into med-school there. long story……
anyway, I gotta study a little now.
I’ll take pictures of Cologne for ya sometime!!!! It’s so pretty, and you’d LOVE the cathedral!
Take care!
-J
Yeah. Most of those events happen in Tempest. Betrayal and Bloodlines also had some pretty big name events, too. I think since the New Jedi Order, most Star Wars books have started growing darker. I could definitelty leave a copy of Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal at my mom’s home. If you don’t get it for Christmas, consider that copy yours. It’s a hardcover, and I like having a paperback library. I bought the hardcover cheap, and tore through it in a matter of days. If you do get it, I can have someone donate my copy to the Tipton Public Library’s collection of Star Wars books. Either way, people win.
This series dealt with Corellia and Centerpoint again, but it doesn’t really drag as much as the Corellian trilogy did. I’m not going to spoil it too much more for you, but some familiar faces from the New Jedi Order or even Dark Nest trilogy return in places and circumstances you wouldn’t have expected from them, either. It also brings some Old Republic fringe types back, too.
You rock!