Thoughts of St. Ignatius Loyola for Every Day of the Year

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by  St. Ignatius Loyola

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(Continued from front flap) H St. Ignatius of Loyola is one of the great shapers of
From the heart of St. Ignatius Loyola’s spiritual legacy, O the Catholic tradition. The Spanish soldier who
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extraordinary institutional legacy but also a
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on living a life fully in God’s presence S distinctive spirituality that today nourishes people
1540 he founded the Society of Jesus, along O St. Ignatius Loyola looking for ways to integrate faith into life.
with St. Francis Xavier, Blessed Peter Faber, F
S Informing Jesuit education, ministry, and training
and others, establishing Jesuit schools, churches,
“No one should call himself a friend of Christ unless he cherishes T in communities around the world, Ignatian
and communities throughout the world. .
those souls which Christ redeemed by the shedding of his Blood.” I spirituality offers a rich, practical vision—of
He died in 1556 and was canonized in 1622. G
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U in this age of uncertainty and transition.
“A little holiness and great health of body does more in the care
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Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., is Vice President for of souls than great holiness and little health.” L
O Drawn from the vast body of Ignatius’s writings,
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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” the Jesuit scholar Gabriel Hevenesi in 1715 as
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O Scintillae Ignatianae, these brief thoughts, suppli-
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cations, prayers, directions, and other aphorisms
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“The sharper you are at noticing other people’s failings, V were first published in an English translation in
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the more apt will you be to overlook your own.” R 1928 but have been unavailable in book form for
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Thoughts of
St. Ignatius Loyola
for Every Day of the Year

Thoughts of
St. Ignatius Loyola
for Every Day of the Year
From the Scintillae Ignatianae
compiled by Gabriel Hevenesi, S.J.
Translated by Alan G. McDougall
Fordham University Press
New York
2006
Copyright © 2006 Fordham University Press
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic,
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printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Adapted from Thoughts of St. Ignatius Loyola for Every Day in the Year, Translated
from the “Scintillae Ignatianae” of Father Gabriel Hevenesi, S.J., by Alan G.
McDougall (London: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd., 1928).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556.
Thoughts of St. Ignatius Loyola for every day of the year : from the
Scintillae Ignatianae / compiled by Gabriel Hevenesi ; translated by
Alan G. McDougall.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2656-6
ISBN-10: 0-8232-2656-5
1. Devotional calendars—Catholic Church. I. Hevenesi, Gabriel.
II. Title.
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Contents
Foreword to the 1928 Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Alan G. McDougall
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.
Thoughts of St. Ignatius Loyola
for Every Day of the Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Foreword to the 1928 edition
Scintillae Ignatianae, the compilation from which the
following extracts are translated, was first published at Braunsberg
in 1712. The author, a Hungarian Jesuit, was born at Miczke in
1656; entered the Society in 1671; became provincial of Austria,
and died at Vienna in 1715. In the original collection each
aphorism of St. Ignatius is followed by a short exposition by Fr.
Hevenesi, in four clauses, meant to serve as the basis of a
meditation. These expositions have been omitted in the present
translation, and the saint left to speak for himself. In some half-
dozen cases the translator, for various reasons, has ventured to
substitute for the extract given by Fr. Hevenesi some other
“thought” from the writings of St. Ignatius.
A.G.M.
In festo S Ignatii, 1928.
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Thoughts of
St. Ignatius Loyola
for Every Day of the Year