We are living through a change of era. Guided by Pope Francis, the entire Catholic world is listening for the Spirit and following a synodal path. How do we as Christians live through this change of era? How do we learn to find the Spirit at work in unexpected places? How do we deal with the changing relationship between the Church and society?
Ironically, we may need to turn the page back a few hundred years, five hundred, to be precise. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, lived in a time of great change and upheaval. He practised a faith that went out into the world and yet was rooted in an extraordinarily inventive and scriptural spirituality.
In
Stepping Beyond: Ignatian Reflections for Today, Paul Pace SJ, former Jesuit provincial of the Maltese province, shows how the spirituality of the early Jesuits and especially of Ignatius can help us to live during this 'change of era' and teach us how to deal with a world in which some change feels inevitable but real change feels impossible.
With an introduction to the basics of Ignatius and Ignatian spirituality and a focus on where the personal and epochal meet,
Stepping Beyond shows us how introducing Ignatian spirituality into our own lives can actually help us step beyond the world we know and into a world where the Spirit is active and the Saviour is at work.
