In the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits), I found this quite applaud-able:
In the additional 5 Simple Vows of the Jesuits, they affirm not to ambition any offices outside of their Society, nor within their Society, AND a commitment to report any Jesuit who 'does so ambition'.
"Under these vows, no Jesuit may "campaign" or even offer his name for appointment or election to any office, and if chosen for one must remind the appointing authority (even the Pope) of these Vows-" Wikipedia
Evidently 'ambition' is not in the Jesuits 'strengths-finders' book.
They also agree not to water-down the Society's Observance of Poverty, which has always been a temptation to any simple-living/poverty-committed community.
2 comments:
I wonder if they decided that it was impossible to follow Paul's claim to do "nothing out of selfish ambition." And so they thought we better just say to do nothing out of ambition all together.
Great point! I do wonder about the semantics...is it assumed that it is selfish ambition if it is about ´self´?
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