The Universal Apostolic Preferences are a process of responding to the mission of reconciliation, leading to transformation. All four of them are to be viewed in an integrated way as response to life-mission in its unity, not as separated entities. They constitute one process calling us, as the whole body of the Society of Jesus, to conversion at personal, communal and institutional levels.

George Pattery, SJ

The author is the former Provincial of Calcutta Province and former President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia (POSA).