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We who love the  \nChurch heard the word ‘crisis’ a lot yesterday, and those writing about the Church recently have not shied from that dramatic word.  \nBut our crisis differs from the crises we often face in our respective workplaces. It has not befallen us with the suddenness of a fiery explosion but slowly unfurled over years and decades, with an insidiousness that the Ignatius of the Exercises might identify as the hallmark of the evil spirit at work, who insinuates himself subtly into our lives. Many in the church, and surely some in this room, would object to the word ‘crisis,’ and, therefore, not recognize the need for urgent action that a crisis compels. Moreover, I suspect that if we polled this room, we might end up with almost as many interpretations of the crises facing our Church and society as there are attendees, not to mention equally broad diversity of opinion on just what we should do. Some undoubtedly believe our church is not changing enough; others probably believe the church has changed too much, or in the wrong directions.  \nSo how do we navigate our crisis, one that we each perceive differently and with varying degrees of urgency? First, let’s understand the fundamental nature of any crisis. It was my great privilege to work for JP Morgan in Asia alongside individuals who taught me what a crisis really is. The Chinese language represents the word crisis with two characters: one of them means danger, the other one means opportunity. If this is a crisis, it is a moment of great danger, but by the very same token, a moment of vast opportunity. Each of us will define the danger differently; I will choose for this morning to define one dimension of the danger this way: the danger that this generation of Jesuits and their lay partners, faced with the obvious and dramatic decline of Jesuit manpower, could be the one to allow a distinctly Ignatian vision of spirituality, prayer, work, and education to wither to insignificant influence in the life of the American church and  \n1  \nnumber 109 Review ofIgnatian Spirituality  \n2  \nTITOLO  \nsociety just at a time when it’s most deeply needed. The great opportunity we all share is the converse: to conceive ways of applying and invigorating this Ignatian way of proceeding to fit the circumstances in which we and the church find ourselves, and thereby to address the challenges that you have all been discussing in small group sessions. Crises entail danger, and crises create opportunity: just think, for example, of initiatives conceived over the last two decades like the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Ignatian Lay Volunteers, and the widespread lay leadership in so many traditional Jesuit ministries. Such initiatives were inconceivable in the church and Society of Jesus of the 1950s, precisely because no crisis convinced Jesuits of the need to pursue these S and other S exciting, fruitful initiatives that have since been undertaken.  \nHowever we each might choose to describe our crisis, let’s please accept, each personally and together as a group, its scale. This generation of Jesuits and lay partners are called, privileged, and burdened to deal with challenge to their corporate existence and relevance matched only, as best I can tell, by the very first generation of Jesuits and those who lived immediately before and after the suppression. This is the team the Holy Spirit has chosen to put on the field at this critical moment; and if some of us are stubborn, stupid, and just too tired…more of you are kind, holy, smart, dedicated, just, and prayerful…indeed, some can even sing Irish drinking songs and recite Hopkins’ poetry.  \nAnd let’s be encouraged that we today have in our shared Ignatian tradition unique and remarkable resources for coping with this moment, asthe Chinese would say, of danger entwined with opportunity. Let me now","cbCairfeUr5mwEpK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairfeUr5mwEpK","pdf",112294,13,"English","# Key Themes: Crisis, Danger, and Opportunity\n## Navigating Differing Perceptions of Crisis\n## Five Foundational Resources\n### Invincible Hope\n### Shared Faith in Christ Jesus","[{\"question\":\"How does Lowney define a crisis in the context of the Church?\",\"answer\":\"He describes crisis as something that unfolds over years and decades, creating danger while also opening opportunity. 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