Documents of the Christian Church by Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder

Author:Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder [Bettenson, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

b. Obedience of the Jesuits Const. vi. I [Institutum I, 407 f.]: Mirbt, 431

Let us with the utmost pains strain every nerve of our strength to exhibit this virtue of obedience, firstly to the Highest Pontiff, then to the Superiors of the Society; so that in all things, to which obedience can be extended with charity, we may be most ready to obey his voice, just as if it issued from Christ our Lord … , leaving any work, even a letter, that we have begun and have not yet finished; by directing to this goal all our strength and intention in the Lord, that holy obedience may be made perfect in us in every respect, in performance, in will, in intellect; by submitting to whatever may be enjoined on us with great readiness, with spiritual joy and perseverance; by persuading ourselves that all things [commanded] are just; by rejecting with a kind of blind obedience all opposing opinion or judgement of our own; and that in all things which are ordained by the Superior where it cannot be clearly held [definiri] that any kind of sin intervenes. And let each one persuade himself that they that live under obedience ought to allow themselves to be borne and ruled by divine providence working through their Superiors exactly as if they were a corpse which suffers itself to be borne and handled in any way whatsoever; or just as an old man’s stick which serves him who holds it in his hand wherever and for whatever purpose he wish to use it….

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