formula of the institute - the jesuit school of the heart
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After the story of one person, in the autobiography
And the life of the group; with one incident of that life: the deliberation
We have the first sketch of the SJ, prima SJ summa
1539, November, approval verbally by the pope
Formal approval
1540: Bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae (“On the Supremacy of the Church Militant”)
Significance of the Formula
The formula is the rule of the Society; it corresponds to what the legislation of the old religious orders called the Rule. The Society endorsed this view in GC V (1593-1594), XXVII (1923) and XXXI (1965-66).
Ignatius: ‘this Rule of Ours’. A kind of Sketch of ‘our profession’, the principal features of the Institute. The formula are explained in the Constitutions.
• The Constitutions and Comp. Norms,
IJS, 1996, p.3-14.
•W.Barry, p. 9 – 14, 2005, third ed.
•A. de Jaer, p.7-8, 10, 2001
•Aldama, A commentary on the formula
of the Institute, 1990