For the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven[1] Constitutions, 257 Each year the Institute of the Incarnate Word’s members make the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola wherein the Spanish saint “invites [us] to the great conquest of sanctity.”[2] Throughout the ‘second week’ of said Exercises, we are given the opportunity to meditate […]
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“Fully live the Christian and priestly kingship and lordship” Constitutions, 214 “We want to form priestly souls of priests who are not ‘tributaries,’[1]”[2] our proper law declares with all firmness and clarity. What does it mean to be a tributary? Our documents also explain this: “Tributary […] is the one who recognizes the lordship that
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“The unconditionals of God”[1] Formula for the monthly renewal of vows “The soul that has attachment to anything…, will not attain to the liberty of divine union,”[2] wrote Saint John of the Cross. And what he wrote, he practiced, and he tried hard to instill it in souls. Because this is the vocation of
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