GC 31, Religious Life

Since the goal to which the Society directly tends is "to help our own souls and the souls of our neighbors to attain the ultimate end for which they were created," it is necessary that our life - of priests as well as scholastics and brotherss - be undividedly apostolic and religious. This intimate connection between the religious and apostolic aspects in the Society ought to animate our whole way of living, praying, and working, and impress on it an apostolic character.