Prayer: Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.

The special quality of the commitment to which Christ calls His Society… consists in saying “yes” to the promotion of justice in saying a personal “yes” to the Incarnate Word. For it is through participation in the mystery of His cross and His paschal glory that His reign of justice and peace comes about. And it is this personal adherence to Christ – going far beyond a simple assent to the ethical values promoted by the Gospel and by the teaching of the Church – which grounds the union of minds and hearts in a Society which bears his Name, and roots our fidelity to this Society in a love prepared for ordeals, not in a shallow, passing feeling. It is this personal adherence to Christ which makes us grown into oneness with a Church which, despite so many appearances and near proof to the contrary, is a “communion of love in Christ.”