To be a Jesuit means to know how one is a sinner yet deeply known and loved by God and, as if this were not enough, called by God to work with Jesus Christ for the salvation of the world, together building the Kingdom of God where justice, peace, love, fullness of life, and communion with God, with each other, with the rest of Creation - are the order of the day.
To be a Jesuit is to be amazed with gratitude, and moved by thanksgiving beyond generosity to magnanimity, throwing everything away in order to follow Jesus without counting the cost.
To be a Jesuit is to have an expansive spirit, always hungry to serve, always thirsty to help others reach the perfection God calls them to, always seeking the greater good, the more loving thing to do.
To be a Jesuit is to expect to find God busily at work everywhere and anywhere, even in the most unexpected places.
To be a Jesuit is always to be discerning what the Spirit of God is up to in my life, in the lives of others, in the world, and to ask myself and the Spirit how I am resisting and cooperating with the Spirit’s action.
To be a Jesuit is to promote the good, to help people have a relationship with the God who is madly and deeply in love with them, and to promote the justice that helps to make this relationship real.
To be a Jesuit is to be in love. This changes everything.