Ignatius and the Stars

 

From May 2021 until July 2022, the Society of Jesus celebrates an Ignatian Year.  May 20, 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of St. Ignatius’ conversion — that fateful day when Ignatius the soldier, struck by a cannonball, began his transformation into Ignatius the pilgrim. Today let us pray a prayer for the close of the Ignatian year.

 

Ignatius and the Stars: A Prayer for the Close of the Ignatian Year

 

Before the vigil at Montserrat,

Before the pilgrimage to Jerusalem,

Before the foundation of the Society,

There was a man, on a castle balcony,

Gazing up in wonder at the stars.

St. Ignatius, awed by mystery,

Draw our eyes ever upward to the heavens,

Our hearts to the holy adventures that await us,

And our spirits to the grandeur that surrounds us.

May we, too, see all things within us and beyond us

As sacred galaxies, formed and held,

This year and always, by loving hands.

Amen.

by Cameron Bellm