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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Why This Is The Most Important Jesuit Text You've Never Heard Of with Fr. Bart Geger, SJ
Description: You’ve heard of the Spiritual Exercises. You’ve probably heard of Ignatius’ autobiography. But have you heard of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus? Unless you’re a Jesuit, you probably haven’t. It’s a series of documents often dismissed as too legalistic, necessary but not relevant to daily life. But that’s not true—and our guest today, Fr. Bart Geger, SJ, professor at the Boston College’s school of theology and ministry, will make that case.
The Constitutions are foundational to the Ignatian tradition, to how Jesuits understand their mission: that being the service of the greater glory...