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Welcome to the Way Ignatian Book Service

This bookshop service is provided by The Way, a journal of Christian spirituality published by the British Jesuits. It aims to make available a range of materials on Ignatius of Loyola, the Spiritual Exercises, the Jesuits and various theological topics, some of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.

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Brian O'Leary SJ, Sent into the Lord's Vineyard: Explorations in the Jesuit Constitutions
	IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA spent the last sixteen years of his life in three small rooms in Rome governing the Society of Jesus, the religious order he had founded. Central to his project was the composition of the Jesuit Constitutions. He wanted a document that was flexible enough to support men in vastly different societies and cultures, and yet sufficiently uniform to offer a recognisable identity to the hundreds of new recruits flooding into the new Order. For nearly five centuries the Constitutions have, without change, continued to guide the Society of Jesus and its apostolic works. Indeed their underlying spirituality inspires and energizes not only Jesuits but many other religious women and men in the Ignatian tradition. Brian O’Leary is an Irish Jesuit who has been writing and lecturing on the Jesuit Constitutions for the last three decades. In this book he demonstrates how the personal experience of the Spiritual Exercises, a keystone in the formation of each individual Jesuit, is supplemented by the corporate outlook of the Constitutions. He then explores their developmental programme that leads from the novice’s first tentative steps to the full-blown life of the discerning apostle. At a time when spirituality is often criticized as being too individualistic and ‘me-centred’, this book explores a classic text that enables a personal spiritual experience to help transform the world. Price: £10.00 (forthcoming in late April 2012) ISBN 978 0 904717 38 9
The Lord of Friendship
	A favourite phrase that the first Jesuits used in talking about themselves was that they were a group of “friends in the Lord”. In his Autobiography, Ignatius of Loyola describes how they would take time out from their studies at the University of Paris to picnic on the wooded slopes of Montmartre. There they would share their hopes and dreams of future ministry, dreams that would soon lead one of them, Francis Xavier, to India and Japan, and another, Pierre Favre, to walk an estimated 14,000 miles along the roads of Europe in his seven years of active apostolate. The Lord of Friendship presents a series of studies (originally prepared for a seminar run by the Dutch and Flemish Jesuits) looking at this hitherto undervalued aspect of the foundation of the Society of Jesus. How was Ignatius able to pass on his vision of a new kind of religious order, dedicated to taking the gospel to the borders of the known world and beyond? What might the idea of such companionship have to say to the renewal of religious life today? The links between friendship, mission and discernment explored here remain potent forces for all concerned with the attempt to bring the Good News to the people of our own time. Price: £15.00