From Ignatius of Loyola: Pilgrim Saint by Jose Idigoras
Martin Luther had just radically liberated everybody from the mediation of the Church. The Manresa pilgrim [St. Ignatius] did not wrestle with a similar temptation, nor did he ever contemplate taking such a step. Just the opposite: he participated in the sacraments, he immersed himself in traditional devotions, and he took his problems to his confessor, whose direction he blindly obeyed. At the same time, he clearly understood that apart from all of these matters, God and God alone taught him as a schoolmaster teaches a young boy. He had no fear of the Church, which, even though ever suspicious of possible illusions, would one day choose the following passage from the book of Deuteronomy (32:12) as the Entrance Antiphon for the Mass of St. Therese of Lisieux: "The Lord nurtured and taught her...The Lord alone was her leader." In this same sense, the Lord was the director and teacher of Ignatius. God did not teach him a new lesson. This pupil that He was illuminating, however, now seemed to see new meanings in old truths he had learned from the study of his catechism...He learned the infathomable depths of things about which we speak today in terms that have all but worn out by overuse.
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