It is common knowledge in villages that pathways are made by walking. By regularly walking, we create new pathways. The first of the four newly promulgated Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) speaks of the Spiritual Exercises (SE) as ‘Jesuit Pathway to God’. Pope Francis said that the first preference was crucial because it formed the basic condition for the other three.

George Pattery, SJ

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