Do you know, that although all the first companions of Ignatius were graduates, the original list of Jesuit ministries did not include education? Ignatius wanted his men to be free to move from place to place wherever the need was the greatest. May be because of this, immediately after the death of Ignatius, many Jesuits doubted if education was a ministry proper to the Society’s charism. Even today, there are some of our men who ask whether education is the best ministry to serve our mission. Still, education has for long been one of the major ministries in the Society.
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President of Jesuit Conference of South Asia.
