“One thing that demands attention is the weakening of the Company. When I entered the novitiate there were 33 thousand Jesuits. Now how many are we? More or less half and we will continue to decrease in number,” the Pontiff said at the meeting.
“This information is common to many religious orders and congregations. It has a meaning and we must ask ourselves what it is. Ultimately, this decrease does not depend on us. The vocation is commanded by the Lord,” Pope Francis indicated then.
The Pope also said that if the vocation “does not come, it does not depend on us. I believe that the Lord is giving us a teaching for religious life. For us it has a meaning in the sense of humiliation.”
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