Healing a Broken World - Society of Jesus

2. VISION
Healing a Broken World
5] The deepening of our faith experience in God‘s creative gift of life calls for
transformative change in the way we respond to the urgent task of
reconciliation with creation. Creation, the life-giving gift of God, has become
material, extractable and marketable. Full of paradoxes, the world confuses
and accuses us, but holds out, at the same time, encouraging signs. There is
fear, turmoil, suffering, and despair, but also expressions of hope and trust.
All of us are responsible, some of us more than others; all of us suffer the
effects, some more than others. Justified by technological prowess and
consumed by greed, too many human beings continue to dominate and rape
nature in the advance towards ‗progress‘; too few reckon with the
consequences of our actions.
6] Rational and technical answers to the physical and biological challenges of
this world dominate our experience, blunting our sensitivity to the mystery,
diversity and vastness of life and the universe. The spiritual depth of
communion with nature is banished from our experience by an excess of
rationality, but if we want to respond to the searching questions of the
women and men of our time, we need to go deeper and increase our
communion with creation. We have much to learn in this from others so that
their experience makes us draw deeper from our own faith; we need to
know on our pulse the hope and healing sought by so many in the world
today, especially those who are young or vulnerable and in need of peace
across the land.
7] Today, more than ever, we need to recognize Christ in suffering and
ugliness, in the depth of all things as in the Passover, reconciling creation
through Himself and renewing the Earth. Though powerless, we draw
strength through Christ‘s presence and with dignity experience meaning
and love. ‗Seeing God in all things‘ calls us into the mystical relation with all
creation. The wisdom of God and the new triptych explaining our mission of
reconciliation 8 - these give us strength to listen to all people and to work
with them. We recognise the wounded and broken world and humbly
acknowledge our part; yet this is an invitation to respond, to be a healing
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