Ignatian Pedagogy and Its Religious Inspirations

Research Objective: The aim of this article is to shed light on the religious inspirations that underpin Ignatian Pedagogy. The research problem and methods:The research problems involve questions concerning the most important ideas of Ignatian spirituality, which are based on the existential experience of St. Ignatius Loyola, and which are a source of inspiration for Ignatian Pedagogy. Based on the literature, the fundamental ideas of Ignatian Spirituality and their influence on the emergence and development of Ignatian Pedagogy were analysed. The process of argumentation:Starting from the historical stages of the formation of the key elements of Jesuit spirituality, the key moments of the spiritual experience of St Ignatius of Loyola are shown. The interpretation of the tenets of the Ignatian tradition and its spirituality made it possible to identify the vital ideas that constitute the sources of Ignatian Pedagogy. Research results:The analysis leads to the conclusion that the modern concept of education should be built on the proper concept of the human being. One of the proposals is the concept of a person that we find in Ignatian Pedagogy. It is inspired by Ignatian Spirituality and describes humanity in the perspective of God’s creative act and His love. In this context, the issues of individuality and freedom of each person are especially important. Conclusions, innovations and recommendations: Human existence in the changing and globalised world means a constant need to respond to change. Therefore, education should be understood as the familiarisation of students with change, which is a necessary condition for their development and thus for the progress of society. The Ignatian Pedagogy is effective in this regard, as it assumes an all-round development of a person and involves another person, an educator/mentor, who acts as a kind of witness to the ongoing history of life.

EMBRACING THE SPIRIT: THE IGNATIAN PNEUMATOLOGY OF LOUIS LALLEMANT

The Pneumatology of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola is famously discreet. However, other Ignatian authors give the Holy Spirit a central place in their spirituality. This article analyzes the Pneumatological contribution of Louis Lallemant’s Spiritual Doctrine to Ignatian spirituality, in dialogue with the Spiritual Exercises. Anchored in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, this spiritual teaching advocates a docility to the Spirit nurtured by the “guard over the heart” and an on-going responsiveness to the Spirit’s promptings. The “second conversion” promoted by Lallemant to his hearers is revealed as a Pneumatological event. It nonetheless conforms the believer to Christ, acknowledging the Christological focus of Ignatian Spirituality, while expanding its Pneumatological dimension. KEYWORDS: Spiritual Exercises. Pneumatological. Louis Lallemant. Spiritual Doctrine.

Finding God in All Things through Poetry

Poetry is a language of devotion. It is the melody that resonates from one’s pure conscience. Being the most important and richest part of our spiritual practice, people read and write poems to help them gain understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. Examining world poetry, mainly from America, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka which tell about the presence of God, this article attempts to find out how God the Creator is present and represented, focusing as it does on the connection between poetry and spiritual exercises. Each of the seven poems under discussion is read by considering Ignatian Spirituality of which the core is “Finding God in All Things”. The selected poems show that God can indeed be found in three main spots. First, God resides in the universe. The presence of God in nature is a common theme shared by the poets discussed. Second, the speakers of the poems find God within themselves. They find God through discretion. Third, some of them find the face of God in that of other people because humans are created in His image. The poems open an awareness that God is present in the sufferings of others. In conclusion, poetry serves as both prayers and spiritual exercises that can improve people’s inner compassion and justice.

L’influenza de la Dialectique des “exercices spirituels” de Saint Ignace de Loyola nel pensiero di Jorge Mario Bergoglio

When in October 2016 I started working on my book Jorge Mario Bergoglio. An intellectual biography I did not have the slightest idea of ​​the importance played by the figure and work of Gaston Fessard in the formation of Bergoglio’s thought. There was nothing to suggest that Gaston Fessard could be a relevant author for the intellectual formation of the future Pope. I was struck by the polar and dialectical model of thought that animated him, the possibility of harmonizing opposites, of inviting concepts to a common table that apparently could not be approached, because it places them in a higher plane in which they find their synthesis. This paradigm, of the Church and of the Society of Jesus as complexio oppositorum, finds its verification, according to Bergoglio, in the way in which the Jesuits have achieved the inculturation of the faith in the indigenous peoples of Latin America. Bergoglio rereads Ignatius in the light of a dialectical model. As he will say in one of the interviews he gave me on the occasion of the writing of my book: “In Ignatian spirituality there is always this bipolar tension”. It is certainly an original, uncommon reading of Ignatius’s thought. It is the ideal factor that allows us to explain why Bergoglio, when in 1986 he went to Frankfurt to write his doctoral thesis, chose the Guardinian essay dedicated to the polar opposition. When I concluded my volume on the intellectual biography of the future Pontiff in February 2017, one element, however, remained obscure. Where, from which author had Bergoglio drawn his polar model? Where did your antinomic reading of Ignatian spirituality come from? Not by Guardini discovered philosophically in 1986. Francis indicated the starting point of his intellectual formation. The reading of Fessard’s La dialectique des Exercices spirituels de saint Ignace de Loyola, published in 1956, is the work that “ had a great influence “ on him. It is the work that clarifies Bergoglio’s antinomian thought, his subsequent ideal encounter with Guardini’s philosophy.

Personal Discernment and Dialogue. Learning from ‘the Other’

This article considers the theme of discernment in the tradition of Ignatian spirituality emanating from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). After a brief introduction which addresses the central problematic of bad influences that manifest themselves as good, the article turns to the life and work of two Jesuits, the 16th C English missionary to India, Thomas Stephens and the 20th C French historian and cultural critic, Michel de Certeau. Both kept up a constant dialogue with local culture in which they sought authenticity in their response to ‘events’, whether a hideous massacre which shaped the pastoral commitment and writing of Stephens in the south of the Portuguese enclave of Goa or the 1968 student-led protests in Paris that so much affected the thinking of de Certeau. Very different in terms of personal background and contemporary experience, they both share in a tradition of discernment as a virtuous response to what both would understand as the ‘wisdom of the Spirit’ revealed in their personal interactions with ‘the other’.

Manajemen Supervisi Klinis Untuk Meningkatkan Profesionalisme Guru Di Sekolah Menengah Atas Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta

The research aimed to know the clinical supervission management to improve teacher’s professionalism in Senior High School of Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta.This research was conducted in Senior High School of Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta. The collecting data method were interview, observation and documentation. The informan in this research were principal, teachers and supervisor. The data validity were done by triangulation techniques. The data were analyzed by interactive analysis model.Results of the research showed that: (1) Clinical supervision management to improve teachers professionalism in Senior High School of Kolese De Britto Yogyakarta was successful. Supervission management in grew continuously and systematically. Supervisors understand and know about clinical supervision properly, help and guidance teachers with aims for learning emendation. (2) Professional competence of teachers which felt needs to understood and well known at Senior High School Kolese De Britto are competences of professional teachers based on vision and mission in school. The competences mentioned is suitable with school vision and mission based on leadership competence. (3) Senior High School Kolese De Britto as educational institutions, support Ignatian spirituality. The term of this spiritual is risen from the knowledge about contexts, action, reflection, and evaluation. The learning quality is not only just about transfer of knowledge, but also about values. (4) Supporting factors in the management of clinical supervision include a culture and school management, initiative and transparency of a teacher, and human resources that support, institution staffs and foundation give PKG and FDG socialization, and evaluation activities. (5) Constraints factors in implementation of clinical supervision management are: erroneous paradigms about clinical supervision (supervision is still looked and understood as an assessment for a teacher performance), time for teaching is demanding schedule, there are unnatural situation and action in the class, there are some teachers don’t have openhanded when under strict, there are psychology constraint, and achievable of using technology based on IT.

Menemukan Tuhan dalam Segalanya: Analisis Spiritualitas Kristiani dalam Puisi

As a language of devotion, poetry can help people gain peace and understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. This article explores a number of world poetry that tells about the presence of God. Based on the contemplative relationship between poetry and spirituality, the aim of this study is to examine how God the Creator is present and represented in poetry. Using the hermeneutic-interpretative method of analysis, the research data which include six poems from various countries were analyzed with the conceptual framework being (1) poetry as a prayer and (2) Ignatian Spirituality, i.e., a spiritual practice to affirm that God is present in our world and active in our lives. The reading of the selected poems shows that God can indeed be found in everything. First, God is present in the universe and everything living in it. Second, having gone through various struggles, the characters or speakers in the poems find God within themselves. Third, the face of God is visible in others because humans are created in His image. The conclusion is that studying God's presence in poetry can contribute to the narratives of one's spiritual journey. Abstrak Sebagai bahasa pengabdian, puisi dapat membantu orang memperoleh kedamaian dan pengertian tentang diri sendiri, sesamanya, dan dunia di sekitarnya. Artikel ini membahas sejumlah puisi lintas negara yang mengkisahkan kehadiran Tuhan. Bertumpu pada relasi yang berpatutan antara puisi dan spiritualitas, tujuan studi ini adalah meneliti bagaimana Sang Pencipta hadir dan direpresentasikan dalam puisi. Metode interpretasi hermeneutik dipakai untuk menganalisis data yang berupa enam puisi dari berbagai negara dengan kerangka pikir (1) puisi sebagai doa dan (2) Spiritualitas Ignasian, yaitu latihan rohani yang menegaskan bahwa Tuhan hadir di dunia dan aktif dalam kehidupan kita. Hasil pembacaan sejumlah puisi tersebut menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan sungguh dapat ditemukan dalam segalanya. Pertama, di alam raya dan segala isinya Tuhan hadir. Kedua, setelah melalui pelbagai pergumulan, tokoh atau pembicara dalam puisi menemukan Tuhan dalam dirinya sendiri. Ketiga, wajah Tuhan terlihat dalam diri sesama karena manusia diciptakan sesuai citraNya. Sebagai simpulan, kajian puisi tentang kehadiran Tuhan dapat menambah alur kisah perjalanan spiritual seseorang

Replacing a Culture of Disposability With One of Disponibilidad: An Ecclesiological Proposal for a World in Peril

The ecclesial, sociopolitical, and ecological challenges of are day, while legion, can be read in many ways through the primary lens of a culture of disposability, where things are treated like waste, and people are treated like things. After briefly tracing the rise of the throwaway culture, I propose an antidote in the Ignatian principle of disponibilidad, commonly translated into English as ‘availability’. The ecclesiological proposal that would recalibrate our individual and collective Christian identities around this hallmark quality illumines various spheres of thought and activity which would benefit from a heightened awareness of and commitment to radical availability. The article closes with a charge to rethink what it means to be ‘children of the promise’, as Lumen Gentium puts it so movingly, in light of the twin patrimonies of Ignatian spirituality and rising attunement to the Global South bequeathed on the whole Christian world through the current pontificate.

Ignatian Spirituality and Career Development: New Evidence for Age-Old Practices

Given the importance of career discernment in emerging adulthood, we evaluated an understudied career development approach for higher education students. Specifically, we tested the relationship between spiritual discernment exercises and sense of purpose and calling through the indirect effects of self-concept clarity, career decision self-efficacy, and knowledge of occupational information. Participants ( N = 127) were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions and were surveyed at a 10-week interval. Results indicated significantly higher posttest scores for purpose ( B = .169, p = .026) and calling ( B = .134, p = .013) in the spiritual discernment condition compared to the general adjustment (i.e., control) and traditional career development conditions. Mediation analyses also revealed a significant indirect effect of self-concept clarity on sense of purpose ( B ab = .059, p = .033). These findings suggest that spiritual discernment practices can significantly enhance the effectiveness of career development interventions for discerning purpose and calling.