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Being Centered on Christ

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“Ignatian spirituality is eminently centered on Christ. Love for Christ gives unity to everything in the life and work of Ignatius, and in our way of proceeding, for everything is a concrete application of that love on the level of attitudes and actions. Just as everything converges on Christ, so the love for Christ, in Ignatius’s intuition, unifies the dialectical pairs into which our apostolic action is diffracted:

  • prayer and action;
  • dedication to the perfection of self and neighbor;
  • use of supernatural and human instruments;
  • pluralism and unity;
  • one’s own effort and total dependence on God;
  • poverty and having the most effective means;
  • local insertion and universality.”

~excerpt from Pedro Arrupe: Essential Writings, Kevin Burke, SJ ed., Maryknoll: Orbis, 2004, p. 81.

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