The Election
The election of the general of the Society of Jesus is preceded by four days of “murmuring,” a process of one-on-one conversation about potential candidates for the office. Those who have never been involved in such a process can be expected to think it completely arcane. It is as low-tech as can be. But it’s the process that has been used for electing a general from the beginning. The process is described by Ignatius in the Constitutions: During the murmuratio, the electors “will seek to be informed by those capable of supplying good information, but make no decision until they have entered and been locked into the place of the election. . . . After all together have recited the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, they should be locked inside the place of the congregation . . . in such a manner that they may not leave nor be given any food except bread and water until they have elected a general” (nos. 694, 698).
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