Loyola Marymount University

not just in Christian theology but also in things like math and science. These focuses on the community helped the Society of Jesus become a resected order of the Catholic Church and is still reflected in their operations today. Saint Ignatius of Loyola was borne is Basque country and…

Ignatius of Loyola In 1491- St. Ignatius Loyola was born into minor nobility and he was the youngest of 13 children. He loved the idea of courtly love and knighthood In 1517- Ignatius became a knight in the service of another relative which was Antonio Manrique de Lara. He was a duke of Nájera. Knowing he was interested in courtly love he helped him employe in a military undertakings and put him on a diplomatic mission. In May 1521- He was wounded by a cannonball in battle against the…

The saint I choose to pray to and imitate and whose name I have chosen for the Sacrament of Confirmation is Saint Ignatius of Loyola. His feast day is on July 31st and he was baptized with the name Inigo, but later changed it to Ignatius and adopted Loyola as a surname. Saint Ignatius of Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits. He was from a wealthy family with royal blood. He was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609 and was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.…

The St. Ignatius statue has a sign in front of it with the sayings soldier, scholar and saint. St. Ignatius is all of those, and the statute incorporates each of the words. St. Ignatius has a belt with a cross attached, and this represents his connection with God. For scholar, he is holding a book with the letters IHC on top of a sun on the cover. Finally, the statue is wearing a cape, which represents courage. During his time, a cape was usually worn by a commander to show their command. I…

St. Ignatius believes that we can find God in all things, at every moment, even in the most ordinary times. In the First Week of the Exercise there is a section on General Examen (SE p.25-31). The examen leads us into a relationship with a God who desires to be personally caught up in the lives of those whom he created. It is a prayer that focused on God’s presence with us in the real wold. It allows us to reflect what God is saying to us through our daily activities in participating in…

Ignatius of Loyola 1491-1556 Cultural Context Ignatius (1491-1556) was part of the Spanish Catholic Reformation of the 16th century, contemporary with Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) as well as Protestant reformers John Calvin (1509-1564) and Martin Luther (1483-1546). Ignatius was born in Loyola, Spain, child of landed gentry. He joined the military and was hit by a cannonball in battle in 1521, which broke his leg. His recovery from this injury was not easy, doctors having to re-break and reset…

Shortly before commencing my junior year in high school, I was faced with the arduous decision of selecting my IB subjects. I had to make a choice of which social science I would take. With strong persuasion, my brother urged I take economics which was a course that seemed very foreign to me. Whilst learning the IB economics curriculum, I began to realise how significant the economic implications of climate change are which was crucial for further development of my passion for environmentalism.…

The active, written, discursive pursuit of the incomprehensible established in Rahner’s writing acts as a form of spirituality. In this way, self-reflexivity grounded in tradition develops as spiritual theology. Evident in Ronald Modras’ Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Patrick Byrne’s “The Passionateness of Being: The Legacy of Bernard Lonergan”, and Bernard Lonergan’s “Method in Theology” and “Healing and Creating in History”, I will focus on how…

Loyola University Chicago is a Jesuit institution that promotes caring for others, caring for one’s self, and caring for the community. It is one of Loyola’s foundational aspect of caring for the community that has made the requirement of engaged learning a part of the curriculum. Since the Fall of 2012, Loyola has required its students to go out into the world and obtain hands-on experience in different sorts of fields. One may accomplish this through an internship course, or a class combined…

While in truth, I often think in terms of black and white, I also often see the shades of silver, gray, charcoal and tar that compose the other 98% of opinions and facts of the situation. The statistical analysis and composition of Tulane University are the terms in black and white; the opportunities and possibilities are the shades in between. For quite some time I have known my major of choice is anthropology, and I have entertained the possibility of a double major or a double minor. For…