Saturday, January 11, 2014

Spiritual Exercises of St.Ignatius of Loyola


I have been away from the Internet , the newspapers and the telephone  for over a month (Nov.28,2013 to Jan 8,2014). There was plenty of time to pray.I had been using the meditations in the Spiritual Exercises of St.Ignatius of Loyola.There were the useful meditations on Hell and on mortal sin.
St.Ignatius of Loyola knew Hell just as did St.Teresa of Avila, St. Faustina Kowalski, Sr.Lucia at Fatima. Sr.Josepha Menendez and Dante Alighieri.
This is not the understanding of Hell and mortal sin as those of the Jesuits  who conduct the Spiritual Exercises in coordination with the Sisters at FIES (1).So I have always had to work on the Spiritual Exercises on my own. The sisters who represent the Italian  Federation for the Spiritual Exrecises (FIES)  do not do an examination of conscience  as is recommended by St.Ignatius. They use the common simple version.
On their website is an article by the Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Martini.(2)The cardinal rejected basic teachings of the Catholic Church; the dogma on salvation, mortal sin and the Eucharist.
I don't know how the Sisters and the Jesuits can still offer the Spiritual Exercises?
 The Society of St.Pius X (SSPX), Albano, Italy also make the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola available. I think they have St.Ignatius' understanding of Hell and mortal sin.
Meditating on Hell gives one perspective.This meditation of St.Ignatius should be included in prayers books.
-Lionel Andrades
 
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 http://www.esercizispirituali.it/
 
 
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MEDITAZIONI 

S.Em. Cardinal CARLO MARIA MARTINI
Esercizi spirituali al Clero Romano - Sacrofano (RM), 15-19 novembre 2004

 
Meditazione 1 (ore 11.00 di lunedì 15 novembre)
Meditazione 2 (ore 17.30 di lunedì 15 novembre)

Meditazione 3 (ore 09.30 di martedì 16 novembre) 
Meditazione 4 (ore 17.30 martedì 16 novembre)
Conversazione 1 (ore 21.00 di martedì 16 novembre)
Omelia 1 (Santa Messa ore 11.45 di martedì 16 novembre)
Meditazione 5 (ore 09.30 di mercoledì 17 novembre)
Meditazione 6 (ore 11.00 di mercoledì 17 novembre)
Meditazione 7 (ore 09.30 di giovedì 18 novembre)
Meditazione 8 (ore 17.30 di giovedì 18 novembre)
Omelia 2 (Santa Messa ore 11.45 di giovedì 18 novembre)
Conversazione 2 (ore 21 di giovedì 18 novembre)
Meditazione 9 (ore 9.30 di venerdì 19 novembre)

Celebrazione   Eucaristica  Finale  con  S. Em.   Card.  Camillo  Ruini
(ore 11.45 di venerdì 19 novembre)

According to the International Theological Commission Pope Pius XII made an objective mistake

According to the Vatican's International Theological Commission (ITC)  Pope Pius XII made an objective mistake in the Letter of the Holy Office, when he mistook implicit desire and being saved in invincible ignorance, as referring to people still alive on earth.It is an objective fact that the dead cannot be seen on earth.
 
When one is invincibly ignorant, God also accepts an implicit desire, so called because it is contained in the good disposition of soul by which a person wants his or her will to be conformed to God’s will”. -Letter of the Holy Office 1949.
 
So what? Is implicit desire and being saved in invincible ignorance  visible to us ? Can they be exceptions to the dogma on salvation? How is it relevant to Fr.Leonard Feeney's interpretation?.
The ITC assumes it is relevant! For the ITC there is no more 'an exclusive interpretation' of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Since there are objective, known cases of salvation outside the church for them.
In other words : Pope PIus XII made a mistake. He assumed that we can all see the dead who are saved with implicit desire.These are the known exceptions!
This is a factual error. We cannot see the dead for them to be exceptions to all needing to convert into the Church for salvation.
The Letter does not directly say that there are known exceptions to the interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney but this is what is assumed by the ITC.
So they affirm the traditional teaching in  Singulari Quadam and then reject it with the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston, by assuming implicit desire etc are explicit for us.-Lionel Andrades 

International Theological Commision
from 'The Hope of Salvation for Infants who die without being baptized'
58. In the face of new problems and situations and of an exclusive interpretation of the adage: “salus extra ecclesiam non est”,[88] the magisterium, in recent times, has articulated a more nuanced understanding as to the manner in which a saving relationship with the Church can be realized.
The Allocution of Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadam (1854) clearly states the issues involved: “It must, of course, be held as a matter of faith that outside the apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the Church is the only ark of salvation, and that whoever does not enter it, will perish in the flood. On the other hand, it must likewise be held as certain that those who live in ignorance of the true religion, if such ignorance be invincible, are not subject to any guilt in this matter before the eyes of the Lord”.
59. The Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston (1949) offers further specifications. “To gain eternal salvation, it is not always required that a person be incorporated in reality (reapse) as a member of the Church, but it is necessary that one belong to it at least in desire and longing (voto et desiderio). It is not always necessary that this desire be explicit as it is with catechumens.
When one is invincibly ignorant, God also accepts an implicit desire, so called because it is contained in the good disposition of soul by which a person wants his or her will to be conformed to God’s will”.