Spirituality: Jesuit Universal Apostolic Preferences, I B.

The necessary condition for becoming companions “on the way” in the style of Jesus is, out of closeness with the poor, “to announce his Gospel of hope to the many poor who inhabit our world today.” 3To come closer to the poor means going out to the human peripheries and to the margins of society, adopting a style of life and work appropriate to the situation so that our accompaniment will be credible. To achieve this goal, we resolve, at all levels of the Society, to discern who are the most vulnerable and excluded persons in our midst and to find ways to walk closely beside them.