1. Sister of Ignatius 2. Our Mother, Pauline von Mallinckrodt, was a woman who saw deeply into basic principles of spiritual life and used those principles as a foundation for many practical practices. In this way she resembles one of the saints who inspired her: St. Ignatius of Loyola. Introduction 3. Thesis Ignatius own First Principle and Foundation underlies the rest of his spirituality. This presentation will explore the ways that Pauline lived out the Jesuit principle in the context of her unique charism. 4. Charisms Mother Pauline Transformed by a Eucharistic life-style, we are compelled to give and receive Christs love, joy, peace, and healing for the life of the world. 5. Charisms Ignatius of Loyola Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: finding God in all things as a contemplative in action. 6. Have great love for Gods glory Possess sacred awareness See the value of holy indifference Are contemplatives in action See holiness in the details of everyday life See Gods will as knowable and followable Honor intelligence as a great tool for Gods service Have great loyalty to the Holy Father Eight Parallels: Both 7. Great love for Gods glory Letter to Dean Tewes, May 20, 1859: We shall do everything that lies in our power to further the glory of God. I am saluting God. If we are successful in any undertaking, all glory be to God alone (PvM to Luise Hensel, 9/8/1841) 8. Great love for Gods glory The Spiritual Exercises: they cannot begin without the answer to the question, What is the chief end of man? There are not in Salamanca so many fetters and chains as I desire to bear for the love of God! 9. Possess sacred awareness What sacred awareness could link two such disparate characters as Pauline and Ignatius? By his phrase the author intends to express the idea of an informed intuition and a compelling compassion. It is the ability to really see suffering and not become blind to it through indifference or despair. It is the unwitting decision not to harden ones heart. This awareness is directly related to a connection with God, even if that connection is not explicit. One cannot find God in all things if this awareness is absent or dulled. 10. Possess sacred awareness The six-year-old Pauline who picked up broken glass to spare the poor, shoeless children was almost certainly not thinking about the logic of love at the time, but her heart worked out the proof: There is glass on this road. Many poor blind children live around here. They will cut their feet if this glass is not removed. I am here. Therefore, I ought to remove the glass, even though I have to go to school and may be late. When you live by love and for Gods glory, nothing is irrelevant. 11. See the value of holy indifference One of the most clear examples of this absolute abandonment to Divine Providence is the statement Pauline made when Bishop Conrad Martin returned to Paderborn after presenting the documents of the Congregation for approval in Rome. Mother Pauline came to meet him with the words, Your Excellency, in what manner must we thank and praise the good God? Must we do this for the success or for the failure of the affair? (Chronicles, v 1. 103.) 12. See the value of holy indifference Ignatius impressed on his first Company that they were not to prefer health to sickness, plenty to poverty, or even life to death if they were to accept all things from God with equal resignation. Once while Ignatius was in prison for his teaching, a woman came to comfort him. He said, You show that you have no wish to be put in prison for the love of God. Does prison seem to you so terrible?(Van Dyke 74). It is only so in human terms. 13. Are contemplatives in action It has been said that Ignatius was a results- oriented mystic (Martin, 309). What the Jesuit founder learned from his communion with God in his cave would bear fruit later on in ways that looked exteriorly quite different. 14. Are contemplatives in action Father Schleiniger also recommended a splendid work in French called Holiness in Manual Labor which is used by the Jesuit lay brothers - truly magnificent: Oh do not neglect your interior life, dear SisterIt is for the sake of our spiritual life that I am so anxious to have a Jesuit in Steele (letter to S. Josepha, December, 1854). What water is to the fish, that prayer is to the religious. 15. See holiness in everyday details We learned now not to rely exclusively on exterior support in the religious life, which, perhaps, had been the case, but to value and esteem the ordinary graces given us by God in the religious state; to practice solid virtue, comprehending that not only the hearing of good advice makes saints, but rather the striving after perfection, the earnest endeavor to practice virtue, that thus we please God and gain peace for our souls. (Chronicles, v. 1, 33). It became [Ignatius] habit to instruct his missionaries or envoys, whether it was their special task to preach or to teach, or to give counsel, to spend as much time as they could spare from that special task in deeds of kindness to their fellow men (Van Dyke 131). 16. See holiness in everyday details Throughout his life, he would spend long hours at night gazing at the vast wonders of the heavens, lost in thought and prayer (Meissner, 295). 17. See Gods will as knowable The pursuit of the spiritual life presupposes that Gods will is knowable and follow-able, that it is not a dreamy or tortious fog or something we have only to guess at with our own powers of intellection. Pauline tells her sisters, on no uncertain terms, that we can, will, and must become holy. A Gift of Faith Like waking from sleep 18. See Gods will as knowable In a way, Ignatius could be said to have striven to let God be the superior general of his Order through the examen prayer, as when he was discerning the rules for poverty that the Jesuits should follow...Ignatius saw the (logical) danger of casting all ones heart and soul into doing Gods will without any tool for gauging what that will might be. One might do much harm in the name of doing the will of God, either out of a hunger for power or out of a genuine but misguided desire for good results. 19. Honor intelligence used for Gods service He remained fixed in his desire to help souls and for that purpose first to study (Van Dyke 75). Because in those days everything but the most rudimentary of studies was given in Latin, Latin was the first subject that Ignatius tackled. He had amble occasion to practice humility as the beginner Latin class was, excepting himself, entirely filled with little boys (Martin, 237). Jesuits: a Community founded chiefly to aid souls in Christian living and Christian doctrine, to spread the word of God by spiritual exercises, by deeds of neighborly kindness and especially by the instruction of children and the ignorant in Christianity (Van Dyke, quoting first draft of Jesuit constitution, emphasis added.) 20. Honor intelligence used for Gods service Educate the whole personin truth and not with qualifications. Creativity: sing the commandments any time! Know how to deal with different personality types. Know when to use humor. 21. Are loyal to the Holy Father Pius IX Vatican Portrait Mother Pauline referred to the Holy Father, in a letter (June 19, 1867 to Conrad Martin), as our gloriously reigning Pope Pius IX and she received Holy Communion for him with joy. She even once received a spiritual bouquet declaring that others were praying, not for her, but for the Pope. (Letter to Chaplain Potthoff, February 16, 1871). It is little wonder that she offered the Pontiff refuge at St. Josephs House (May, 1871) and even tried to see Napoleon III on his behalf (Letter to Hermann, July 9, 1871). 22. Are loyal to the Holy Father A painting of St Ignatius Loyola (kneeling), founder of the Society of Jesus, with Pope Paul III in 1534. Photograph: Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images Ignatius was loyal; despite his being earlier dragged before the Inquisition, he did not condemn the authority of the Church. By 1539, he and his proto-Company had plans to, devote themselves to the care of souls wherever the Pope might wish to send them. (Van Dyke, 133, quoting notes of Ignatiuss secretary) 23. Summary Pastor Dr. Bernhorst spoke of Mother Pauline at her eulogy as having, an unusual, great, and meaningful life. Certainly this could be said of Ignatius, too. The greatness of these followers of God consisted in the same thinglove of his will and gloryeven though the days and hours of their lives proclaimed the truth in such very different ways. Like the soprano and tenor parts of a song, they sounded very different, but were in harmony. These two Christians knew what all members of the Communion of Saints will eventually know: That all things begin with fiat and at the last end with Amen. 24. Conclusion The charisms of St. Ignatius and Mother Pauline are both alive and well! Let us pray together: God, who saw fit to give your servants, Blessed Pauline and St. Ignatius, a fire for Your glory, set our hearts ablaze with the same zeal that leads to perfect charity and to perfect peace. Amen 25. A musical reflection from: His Majestys Musicians GOD Thank You