Ignatius of Loyola
Deliberation of the First Fathers
Traditional attribution
Deliberation of the First Fathers
Deliberatio primorum Patrum
A short document narrating how the Paris companions, faced with the dispersal imposed on them by papal missions, deliberated in prayer for weeks on whether to constitute themselves as a religious order with a superior. It is the first example of communal discernment according to the method of the Exercises.
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Authorship note
Collective record of the sessions of March–June 1539 in Rome. It is not Ignatius's personal work: the drafting has been attributed to Pierre Favre or Jean Codure, and it records the group's decisions, including that of binding themselves by a vow of obedience.
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Other works by Ignatius of Loyola
- Spiritual Exercises · 1548
- Autobiography (A Pilgrim's Testament) · 1555
- Constitutions of the Society of Jesus · 1556
- Spiritual Diary · 1544
- Letters and Instructions · 1556
- Letter to Teresa Rejadell · 1536
- Letter on Perfection (to the students at Coimbra) · 1547
- Letter on Obedience · 1553
- Formula of the Institute · 1539
- Deliberation on Poverty · 1544
- Autograph Directory and dictated directories · 1555
- Instruction for those going to Trent · 1546
- Rules of the Society (common rules and rules of modesty) · 1555
- 'Anima Christi' (misattribution) · 1350
- Ignatian Sparks (Scintillae Ignatianae) · 1705
Sources
- Pollen, John Hungerford. «St. Ignatius Loyola». The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton, 1910 (texto en Wikisource).
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