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perseverance and development of social apostolate cannot take place without availability of qualified Jesuits and co-workers. Therefore, I encourage Jesuits involved in social apostolate and those responsible for formation to co-operate in setting up well-designed programmes, within a Province or inter-Provincially, such as GC34 asks: ‘Young Jesuits should be in contact with poor, not just occasionally, but in a more sustained manner. These experiences must be accompanied by careful reflection as part of academic and spiritual formation and should be integrated into training in socio-cultural analysis.’ The normal formation should provide scholastics and brothers with social studies and apostolic experiences that will help all to grow in social-mindedness, allowing some to encounter in social apostolate sector in which they can fulfil their own personal and priestly vocation to Society.
Our non-Jesuit co-workers, too, should be assured really good access to Society's spiritual heritage and apostolic experience, wherefrom they can draw as they integrate their personal background and gifts. Opportunities for learning, reflection, prayer and on-going formation need to be offered our co-workers with, always, greatest respect for their religious convictions. Some experiences already show Characteristics to be a useful resource for these purposes.
9. ‘Christ came to unite what was divided, to destroy sin and hatred, and to reawaken in humanity vocation to unity and brotherhood.’ The crying needs of poor, radical demands of Gospel, insistent teaching of Church, and prophetic calls of our General Congregations, leave us far from complacent with our response. ‘The commitment of Society to a radical life of faith that finds expression in promotion of justice’ has been, is and will be a great grace for us all. Much fine work is already being done and much renewal is already underway. With profound gratitude we appreciate work done in name of whole Society by social works great and small, by Jesuit Refugee Service and many Jesuit Volunteers.
These few pages suggest why and how to strengthen social apostolate, locally and beyond, so that social dimension of Society's universal mission may find ever more concrete and effective expression in who we are, what we do, how we live. ‘How much Society will accomplish’ - declared Father Janssens at end of his Instruction – ‘if only we unite our forces and, in a spirit of oneness, gird ourselves humbly and resolutely for work before us!’ May Lord Jesus, with intercession of Mary our Mother of Magnificat, enlist us ever more fully and radically as servants of His mission. Fraternally yours in Christ,” (5)
JIDDHU KRISHNAMURTI: - After all that ‘stuff’ it is hard to write about a man of spirit and perhaps one of true messiahs. At this juncture in my writing I have placed a great deal of information in front of anyone who would have read previous dozen and more books. This information seldom states exactly what is going on with likes of Jefferson or Krishnamurti for a good reason or two. One of those reasons is – I do not know exactly what influenced their lives and to what extent. I do know they both had esoteric teachers connected to Hermetic and ancient knowledge. The other reason has to do with how much I do know about all this stuff because I have studied it for decades. I know few people could possibly grasp full potential or meaning of these things and even in area of politics and their social inputs this is true.
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