St Ignatius

Let us pray for the Society of Jesus on this great feast day of their founder, St Ignatius. His spiritual exercises have helped countless men and women throughout these last four hundred anf fifty years to listen to the Word of God and to discern the movement of the spirit in thier lives.

The founder of the Society of Mary, the Venerable Jean Claud Colin, was very much influenced by the Scoiety of Jesus and the Constitutions of St Ignatius. Fr Colin used their Constitutions as a basis for the Constitutions of the Society of Mary. Constitutions are the written rules and regulations of the particular religious congregation, and they help to form the member of the congregation in the spiritual life as well as help to organize the internal government of that religious congregation as well.

St Ignatius is also the patron saint of soldiers, so on this day, let us pray thorugh his intercession for all of our soldiers fighting around the world, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.