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The Society of Jesus, aka the Jesuits, in the Catholic Church with Fr William Pearsall SJ: "The call first came to the founder, St Ignatius of Loyola, in this way: St Ignatius, born at the end of the 1400s, lived the first part of the Reformation era, and not originally involved in reformation issues, became a part nevertheless, became a part of the new reformation of the Church, because in his life the way that Jesus came to him reformed him so much that he wanted to share that experience with others. He began as a soldier and wounded in battle, was sent to the family castle in Northern Spain, in the Basque country, to convalesce and it was during this convalescence that he felt the motions of the Spirit within him and he discovered the gifts of discerning the spirits so that he could find God's will, and it was God's will that he should be a soldier of Christ. And so he formed around him a band not of soldiers but of scholars to start with, because it was at the University of Paris that the idea finally coalesced that from his experience as a pilgrim, learning to pray, learning to find God, that from this experience, from the spiritual exercises that came out of this experience, a new movement could be born that would serve the Church and help souls and this was his great desire: to help souls. He saw people in that way, as children of God needing to always be in a good relationship with God and helped by one another into that relationship." Music: Olen Cesari with Fabrizio Bosso. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary; Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.