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St. Ignatius of Loyola
Memorial of the soldier-saint who founded the Jesuits and taught the Church to examine desire under the standard of Christ.
What we celebrate
July 31 is the memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola: wounded soldier, pilgrim, founder of the Society of Jesus. The Church remembers not only a biography but a method — the Spiritual Exercises and the daily examen as weapons against drift.
How to keep the day
Pray the Suscipe. Make an examen tonight even if you have never kept one. Read a page on the discernment of spirits without turning it into self-diagnosis theater. If you wear a medal or carry a prayer book into combat, renew the intention.
Gift guide
Give tools of interior order: spiritual warfare prayers, a serious notebook, a retreat booked and paid for so it actually happens.
Gift guide
Ignatius gifts favor formation over sentiment — a warfare prayer book, a journal for the examen, anything that helps a man review his day under God.