Shukran Vol.8 Issue01, April 2019

Abstract

These universal preferences, as indicated by Fr. General, are the result of a desire to find the best way to collaborate in the Lord’s mission. Pope Francis, in his letter, affirmed that the proposed preferences “are in agreement with the current priorities of the Church as expressed through the ordinary magisterium of the Pope, the Synods, and the Episcopal Conferences, especially since Evangelii gaudium.” The Holy Father insisted that “the first preference is crucial because it presupposes as a basic condition the Jesuit’s relationship with the Lord in a personal and communal life of prayer and discernment.” And he added: “Without this prayerful attitude the other preferences will not bear fruit.....