James Joyce 
 
 
February 2, 1882         Born
1888 - 1891              (6 to 9 years old) Clongowes
                         then Christian Brothers' school
1894                     (age 12) Belvidere College
1895                              Sodality
1896 - 1898                       Prefect of Sodality
1898                              Senior retreat; graduated (age 16)
                         then to University College, Dublin
 
 
 
Ignatius Loyola
 
 
1492                     Born
1541                     founds Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
1553                     letter on obedience
 
        Ratio Studiorum  -  rules for running schools
 
        Rules of the Society of Jesus  -  model for Royal Navy, etc.
 
 
 
 
Education of a Jesuit   (in the time of Joyce)
 
        graduate from high school
        Novitiate       2 years
                                (first year includes a 30 day retreat)
 
simple perpetual vows
        Juniorate       2 years (litterae humaniores)
                                1 poetry        1 rhetoric
        Philosophy      3 years
        Regency         5 years
        Theology        4 years
ordination at end of 3rd year
        Tertianship     1 year (like novitiate)
                                (includes 30 day retreat)
several years later, final vows either "professed" - four solemn vows
                        or "coadjutor" - three simple vows
 
 
        "all things to all men."
 
 
        Vows:   poverty  =  detachment from material things and "one's own"
                                things  --  stress on cummunity property.
 
                chastity
                obedience
                special obedience to the Pope (in the context of apostolic
                                work)