Our Society was founded principally for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the rendering of any service in the church that may be for the glory of God and the common good. In fact, the grace of Christ that enables and impels us to seek "the salvation and perfection of souls" - what might be called, in contemporary terms, the total and integral liberation of the human person, leading to participation in the life of God himself - is the same grace by which we are enabled and impelled to seek "our own salvation and perfection."
A Jesuit, therefore, is essentially, a man on a mission: a mission which he receives immediately from the Holy Father and from his own religious superiors, but ultimately from Christ himself, the one sent by the Father. It is by being sent that the Jesuit becomes a companion of Jesus.
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