Today, the Society of Jesus, in carrying out its mission,
experiences the companionship of the Lord and the challenge of the Cross. Commitment
to “the service of faith and the promotion of justice,” to dialogue with
cultures and religions, takes Jesuits to limit-situations where they encounter
energy and new life, but also anguish and death – where “the Divinity is
hidden.” The experience of a hidden God cannot always be avoided, but even in
the depths of darkness when God seems concealed, the transforming light of God
is able to shine. God labors intensely in the hiddenness. Rising from the tombs
of personal life and history, the Lord appears when we least expect, with his
personal consolation as a friend and as the center of a fraternal and servant
community. From this experience of God laboring in the heart of life, our
identity as “servants of Christ’s mission” rises up ever anew.
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