University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE ST. ISAAC JOCUES Doctors, the Councils or at least their compendium, and almost the whole of the Corpus of Canon Law” that he might have something to give to his students, and not simply that he might become learned in himself. At the very end, this “star of the first magnitude in the heaven of the Church,” as Pope Pius XI called him, is found asking to be buried at the feet of Aloysius Gonzaga, the young Jesuit Scholastic whose Spiritual Father he once was. A month before Bellarmine’s death, another admirer of Aloysius Gonzaga lay dying at the Jesuit Scholasticate in Rome. Unlike the great Cardinal, John serchmans was neither a prodigy nor a giant of mighty learning who could not be hidden. His life was dull, his years uneventful. He died before he had done anything out of the ordinary. His name seemed to have had no particular claim to immortality. Yet, because it could be unmistakably attested that he had broken no single rule deliberately, nor disobeyed any regulation of his Superiors, the Church has placed him among the heroes of the Society and the saints of the Church. John Berchmans was the incarnation of the Jesuit rule. He made the complete sacrifice of the Suscipe; he lived for the Greater Glory of God. In contrast to John Berchman’s life, Isaac Jogues’ was a series of dramatic episodes. Jogues was the first Catholic priest to reach Manhattan Island and probably the first white man to reach the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Rescued once from a martyr’s death, he was ordered back to France to regain his health. But Jogues was so permeated with the ideals of Ignatius that he returned in two years to continue his work among North American Indians. At their hands he met a cruel death — for the Greater Glory of God. Today, four hundred years after their Papal approbation, the principles of Ignatius are still the driving element of the Society of Jesus. ‘Today, as in the very beginning, “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” is the motto of every Jesuit. The thirtieth successor of St. Ignatius, Wlodimir Ledochowski, present General ot the Society of Jesus, has seen it at work in the recent Jesuit martyrs of Spain, Mexico, Russia, and Germany. lenatius had visioned a like unity in Christ for the whole of mankind. But his vision seems shattered by the atheistic Communists who substitute hatred for love, and the warring nations which consider the state as something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed. But his followers are not discouraged. Perhaps it will take another four hundred years to open up to the world the same vision of Justice and Charity and Love. At any rate, the Society of Jesus is trying and will ever keep trying in its educational system to make men see the right order of things — the Glory of God on which personal happiness and civilization itself depends, Page 12

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