To Fling Out His Broad Name

• Poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
• Introduction
• The Consecrated Life
• The Sacrament of Holy Orders from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Formula of the Institute of the Society of Jesus — Ignatius Loyola
• General Examen — Ignatius Loyola
• Jesuits Today — General Congregation 32
• Committed to the Present, Witnessing to the Future: Peter — Hans Kolvenbach
• Jesuit Brothers — Pedro Arrupe
• The Priesthood — Karl Rahner
• “Because Beset By Weakness” — Michael J. Buckley
• Characteristics of Our Way of Proceeding — General Congregation 34
• For Further Reading
• Acknowledgements

As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is –
Christ — For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.