To work for reconciliation every day — with God, with human beings and with the environment.
Faith, justice and solidarity with the poor and the excluded are central elements of the Jesuit mission of reconciliation. The Jesuits rather than asking what they should do, they seek to understand how God invites them.
The Jesuits’ work for reconciliation is three-fold: with God, with humanity and with creation. While we speak of three forms of reconciliation, all three are truly one work of God, interconnected and inseparable.
Our ministries extend across a world of human need — from parishes to prisons, from retreat centres to refugee resettlements, from schools to hospitals.
We collaborate because we see Christ in the other. Collaboration is at the heart of contemporary Jesuit mission.
For all those animated by the Jesuit vision, ministry is an adventure. Our founder, Ignatius of Loyola, captured this spirit when he sent his good friend, Francis Xavier, on a mission to the far East. Ignatius told him — “Go, set the world on fire!”
That’s what we say to the young people in our high schools, middle schools, colleges and universities. It’s what we tell business people and others who take part in our many programs linking spirituality to professional vocations. And it’s the spirit behind all of our ministries, which is often expressed in a phrase long associated with our order, AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM (“All for the Greater Glory of God”), often abbreviated as AMDG.
Ignatian spirituality challenges us to encounter God in all things, witnessing to the joy of the Gospel. We go forth into the world as contemplatives in action, discerning God’s desire for our lives here, now, and acting on God’s invitation. We are women and men for and with others, hearing both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor—and responding. And we do all for the greater glory of God.
