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Consecrated Life as a Way to Inculturation

In May 1998, at the fifty-third Assembly of Religious Superiors General in Ariccia, Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach addressed the topic of...

Read more May 29, 1998
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Creative Fidelity in Mission

An inaugural discourse at the meeting of Major Superiors at Loyola (Spain), on 21 September 2000

Read more September 21, 2000
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Cura Personalis

A discourse delivered in Rome at the opening of the workshop on ‘Spiritual Accompaniment in the Ignatian Tradition’ (January 2007),...

Read more 2007
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Do not hide the hidden life of Christ

A lecture delivered in 1993 in Rome, during the Corse on Ignatian Spirituality, organized by the Secretariat for Ignatian Spirituality. It...

Read more 1993
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Exercises and Partnership

Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach’s text defines the personal dynamic in the Spiritual Exercises, which involves four “actors”: God, Ignatius, the...

Read more February 18, 2002
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Images and Imagination in the Spiritual Exercises

A lecture delivered on 30 January 1986 in Rome, during the IX Course on Ignatian Spirituality, organized by the Secretariat for Ignatian...

Read more January 30, 1986
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In the Footsteps of Saint Ignatius

No Jesuit may dream or ambition to become Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Saint Ignatius was strict and very consistent on this...

Read more 2009
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Jesuit Life in the Spirit

In response to various letters on life in the Spirit in the Society, Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach wrote this letter to all the Jesuits in...

Read more March 26, 1989
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On Apostolic Discernment in Common

Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach produced this detailed document on apostolic discernment in common synthesizing the positive and the negative...

Read more November 5, 1986
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Sentire cum Ecclesia

In this article, Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach demonstrates that the ‘rules on thinking with the Church’ are relevant to the life of the...

Read more March 22, 2004
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The Passion according to St. Ignatius

This text draws our attention to some typical traits of the Passion of our Lord according to St. Ignatius that engages the retreatant...

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The Spiritual Exercises and Preferential Love for the Poor

In this article, Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach shows that the preferential love for the poor is rooted in the text of the Spiritual Exercises....

Read more February 7, 1984
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The University of the Society of Jesus in Light of the Ignatian Charism

Discourse given to Jesuits and lay collaborators working in universities of the Society. Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach explains the “whys and...

Read more May 27, 2001