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A choice has been made among several possibilities, all of them good. Our desire has been to find the best way to collaborate in the Lord's mission, the best way to serve the Church at this time, the best contribution we can make with what we are and have, seeking to do what is for the greater divine service and the more universal good.  \nAt the end of the sixteen months that the process lasted at the various levels of the Society, I presented to the Holy Father four universal apostolic preferences:  \nA. To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment;  \nB. To walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice;  \nC. To accompany young people in the creation of a hope-filled future;  \nD. To collaborate in the care of our Common Home.  \nIn his confirmation letter of 6 February 2019, Pope Francis observed that “the process that the Society followed to arrive at universal apostolic preferences was (…) a real discernment.” He 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.”  \nThe 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.”  \nI. Universal Apostolic Preferences 2019-2029  \nThanks to the universal apostolic preferences formulated by Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, which have guided us for more than fifteen years, several processes have been initiated which must be continued. These include qualified presence in Africa and China, the responsibility of the whole Society for the interprovincial works in Rome entrusted to us by the Popes, the consistency of  \nour intellectual apostolate, and our service to refugees and migrants. During the next ten years, the following preferences will guide us in incarnating the mission of reconciliation and justice in all the apostolic services to which we, along with others, have been sent.  \nA. To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment  \nWe sense that secular society today profoundly challenges the Church in its task of proclaiming the Gospel. As believers we feel an urgent need to overcome both new secularismsand the nostalgia for cultural expressions of the past. We resolve to collaborate with the Church in experiencing secular society as a sign of the times that affords us the opportunity to renew our presence in the heart of human history. A mature secularized society opens up spaces for the complex dimensions of human freedom, especially religious freedom. In a mature secular society, the conditions exist for the emergence of circumstances conducive to personal religious processes, independent of social or ethnic pressure, that allow people to ask profound questions and to choose freely to follow Jesus, to belong to an ecclesial community, and to adopt a Christian lifestyle in social, economic, cultural, and political spheres.  \nThe Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola are a privileged instrument for making the life and action of the Lord Jesus present in diverse social contexts of today's world. Therefore, we resolve to gain a deeper experience of the Spiritual Exercises so that they lead us to a personal and communal encounter with Christ that transforms us.1  \nAt the same time, we resolve to offer the Spiritual Exercises in as many ways as possible, providing many people, especially the young, the opportu","cbCair0CGru05rje","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair0CGru05rje","pdf",748966,11,"English","# To the Whole Society\n## Four Universal Apostolic Preferences 2019-2029\n## A. To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment","[{\"question\":\"What are the Universal Apostolic Preferences for 2019-2029 based on?\",\"answer\":\"They are presented as the fruit of an election and a discernment process carried out during the sixteen months at different levels of the Society.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the letter identify as the first universal preference?\",\"answer\":\"To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment, emphasizing deeper personal and communal experience and regular spiritual discernment.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Pope’s confirmation letter relate to these preferences?\",\"answer\":\"Pope Francis states the process was a real discernment and insists that the first preference is crucial because it presupposes a personal and communal life of prayer and discernment; without it the other preferences do not bear fruit.\"}]","Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus - 2019-2029 | PDF",1790655146,28]