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2000/02
Interesting phrases:Dear Fathers and Brothers, the peace of Christ!
1. A few weeks after the opening of the Holy Door, I would like to recall that the Great Jubilee of 2000, like every jubilee, is a summons on the part of our Creator and Saviour to re-establish lost harmony and to advance in social justice. The loud trumpet - the yôbel - which sounded to open the holy year, called every injustice into question and gave hope to the poor! When Jesus begins to preach the good news, his anointing and mission are "to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour."
Where am I in this grand picture of amazing philantropy?3. Authoritatively synthesising the progress of the four General Congregations after Vatican II, the Complementary Norms affirm: "the contemporary Jesuit mission is the service of faith and the promotion in society of that justice of the Gospel which is the embodiment of God's love and saving mercy ... This mission is 'a single but complex reality, which develops in a variety of ways'" in the very varied fields and works and activities in which Jesuits are engaged throughout the world. Despite the considerable difficulties and our many failures, we look back with gratitude to the Lord for the gifts received on this "journey of faith as we committed ourselves to the promotion of justice as an integral part of our mission." The Society has evolved to the point where GC34 voted unanimously in favour of the decree Our Mission and Justice, and the vast majority of Jesuits have integrated the social dimension into our Jesuit identity and into the awareness of our mission in education, formation and social communications, in pastoral and retreat work. In many places the concern for justice is an essential part of our public image in both Church and society, thanks to those ministries of ours which are characterised by love for the poor and the marginalised, defending human rights and ecology, and promoting non-violence and reconciliation.
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9. "Christ came to unite what was divided, to destroy sin and hatred, and to reawaken in humanity the vocation to unity and brotherhood." The crying needs of the poor, the radical demands of the Gospel, the insistent teaching of the Church, and the prophetic calls of our General Congregations, leave us far from complacent with our response. "The commitment of the Society to a radical life of faith that finds expression in the 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 the work done in the name of the whole Society by social works great and small, by the Jesuit Refugee Service and many Jesuit Volunteers.
These few pages suggest why and how to strengthen the social apostolate, locally and beyond, so that the social dimension of the Society's universal mission may find ever more concrete and effective expression in who we are, what we do, how we live. "How much the Society will accomplish" - declared Father Janssens at the end of his Instruction - "if only we unite our forces and, in a spirit of oneness, gird ourselves humbly and resolutely for the work before us!" May the Lord Jesus, with the intercession of Mary our Mother of the Magnificat, enlist us ever more fully and radically as servants of His mission.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.That's Jesus speaking to his disciples, in clear enough words quite contrary to the above sucker. Clearly enough.
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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:Historically, at the time Rome was known as the city on the seven hills. What other system of idolatry could be depicted here. And they still claim to be Christs only representants on earth, imagine that, with the jesuits are their main suckers into the higher regions of the world. Yeah right. I can feel their blood, this is easy enough, I want them all mine. Had by the balls if they got any, they're gone loose this imformation game, just like before, in reformation. And its too much misery to let stand unexposed. Realy, it is that system which is described in revelation and other bible books, and which is wanting to rule the world, and which is quite capable of taking along the 'new age' age idea as a little contemporary thread to serve a little purpose to try their next great scam which will greatly inspire their fellow conspirators for centuries easily, leaving the environment and nuclear arms in the the dust, and cousing misery and emotional and spiritual miseray and general dumbness and exploitedness and bondage. Be not deluded by their janus head. Check for yourself wether they are affected at all by the games you and your own would play when they are the the backdoor of your spiritual house ready to claim all they can make use of in a seemingly unstoppable greed and humanlessness, or wether your emotional constructions, and the social constructions with your friends and loved ones and your enemies and relations are up to the kind I'm discussing here. I bet some things could crumble in no time, be bought, sold and betrayed in the whink of an eye, and all would be theirs in average miserable thinking modes.
And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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18:4: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Ladies and Gentlemen,It is for me a source of great joy to meet with our collaborators in this magnificent Aula Magna of the Ignatianum to share on the intellectual ministry. You have a right to know how we Jesuits perceive the nature and mission of our educational institutions. Even university and cultural circles at large seek to know the spirit with which the Society of Jesus enters the world of science, research, academic instruction, and cultural activity generally. The reflection I am about to submit is also meant to give impetus to the process the Polish Jesuits are involved in of defining their presence in the sector of education that after the fall of communism is experiencing a tremendous growth. All this is taking place in conjunction with the worldwide assessment the Society is making of its commitment to university education and the role it intends to play in it.