Maria Theresa Gaston, director of Creighton Center for Service and Justice, spoke to the crowd of students, faculty and staff form universities around the country Friday night at the annual Ignatian Family Teach-In. She focused her dialogs on what the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, highligting what it meant to this group of social and poltical activists.
"We travel in the path taken by Ignatius, to find divine life at the depths of reality. Ou mode of proceeding is to trace the footprints of God everywhere," she quoted from GC35.
From this cogregation, she said all Jesuit educated people, who their lives for others are called have four main vocations in life:
1. Be a healer.
:The planet needs healing and it is going to take all of us," she said. She quoted the GC35 when saying "POisoned water, polluted air, massive deforestaton, deposits of atomic and toxic waste are causing death and untold suffering, particularly to the poor."
2. Be a geographer.
"We need to actually study the world, and get ourselves out there through immersion trips and service and justice work of all kinds," she said. "This requires us all to be social analysts and to learn the issues and challenges."
3. Be an excersize scientist.
By this point in our Creighton education, we are all farmiliar with the Igantian excersizes.
"we have marvelous facilites on all of our campuses, trainers and coaches, Jesuits as well as lay men and women who acn share the movements of the Spiritual Excersizes of St. Ignatius. They're for all of us, no matter what body type."
4. Be a community organizer.
"The social reality of our world, the desire of God for our well-being, the stirrings of our hearts and rallying of our gifts will call many of us into leadership. We, who have been educated by the Jesuits havebeen entrusted with a ton. We are called to serve in a way to cooperae with God and empower others."
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