Dom Prosper Guéranger: St. Ignatius of Loyola Was Raised Up As God’s Counter Measure to Luther’s Heresies

By Dom Prosper Guéranger, LifeSiteNews, July 31, 2024

This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1841-1875). LifeSiteNews is grateful to The Ecu-Men website for making this classic work easily available online.

St. Ignatius, famed for his warrior-like zeal, founded the Society of Jesus for the removal of heresy and the promotion of the Catholic faith.

(LifeSiteNews) — Although the cycle of the time after Pentecost has shown us many times already the solicitude of the Holy Spirit for the defense of the Church, yet today the teaching shines forth with a new luster. In the sixteenth century Satan made a formidable attack upon the holy city by means of a man who, like himself, had fallen from the height of heaven, a man prevented in early years by the choice graces which lead to perfection, yet unable in an evil day to resist the spirit of revolt.

As Lucifer aimed at being equal to God, Luther set himself up against the Vicar of God, on the mountain of the covenant; and soon, falling from abyss to abyss, he drew after him the third part of the stars of the firmament of holy Church. How terrible is that mysterious law whereby the fallen creature, be he man or angel, is allowed to keep the same ruling power for evil, which he would otherwise have exercised for good. …

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