In a world "affected by serious economic and environmental disruption, by processes of globalisations that are driven by selfishness more than by solidarity, by devastating and foolish armed conflict", as well as by "new causes of poverty and social exclusion", we must "continue and renew" the mission "among the poor and with the poor". "Many and dramatic are the situations of injustice and poverty said the Pope today to the Jesuits , and while we must commit ourselves to understanding and fighting their structural causes, we must also be able to go and fight, deep down into the heart of man, the deep roots of evil, the sin that separates man from God, while trying to see to the most urgent needs, in the spirit of Christ’s love. Another "praiseworthy service" that is typical of the Society of Jesus is helping the refugees, who "are often the poorest of the poor and who do not only need material help". Finally, the Pope urged them to continue their spiritual exercises, which "since the origins has been a distinguishing feature of your Society", a "precious and effective tool for the spiritual growth of the souls, in this secularised world, in which God seems to be missing" and "at a time in which the confusion and multitude of the messages, the fastness of changes and situations, makes it particularly difficult to be in control of one’s life".
