COMPANY OF JESUS: FROM GENERAL TO GENERAL

Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, S.J., saluting Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, S.J. Source: Facebook.

By Gundhramn Hammer
January 16, 2018

William Pardow (1916: 16), a Jesuit priest himself, once wrote that “Ignatius was not born a saint. He was much like ourselves. He did such human things as to be vain and to fall in love. Then came sickness, and he read a book. When he arose from bed, the world was changed." 

Since then, what they can directly change, they change. And what they cannot directly change, they work hard so that others change what they want to change to get what they want to change. The idea is to change what they think should be changed.

Living in a world that is in constant change, they themselves also change what they think should be changed to adjust their changes to changing times.

And they change in company, for they are the Company of Jesus.

The following video shows one of their changes: The 30th General, Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, S.J., from Spain, saluting and greeting the newly elected 31st General, Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, S.J., from Venezuela:

Watch the original video: Click here.

References

Pardow W. (1916). Searchlights of Eternity. The Encyclopedia Press, New York, NY, USA. 120 pp.