A collection of Decrees and PPT's from GC 32

1. GENERAL
CONGRIGATION 32
Presents

2. Decree 1. Introductory Decree
A. THE SOCIETIES RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGES OF OUR AGE
Decree 2. Declaration: “ Jesuits Today”
Decree 3. Fidelity to the Magisterium an the Supreme Pontiff
Decree 4. Our Mission Today: the service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice
Decree 5. The work of Inculturation of the faith and Promotion of Christian Life
B. DEVELOPING THE APOSTOLIC BODY OF THE SOCIETY
Decree 6. The formation of Jesuits, Especially with Regard to the Apostolate and Studies
Decree 7. Tertianship
Decree 8. Grades in the Society of Jesus
Decree 9. The permanent Diaconate
Decree 10. Time of Last Vows

3. C. WITNESS TO THE GOSPEL IN TODAY’S CIRCUMSTANCES
Decree 11. The Union of Minds and Hearts in the Society of Jesus
Decree 12. Poverty
D. CONGREGATION AND GOVERNMENT
Decree 13. The General Congregation and Congregations of Procurators and
Provincials
Decree 14. The Provincial Congregation
Decree 15. Central Government
Decree 16. Powers Granted to Father General

4. “What is to be a Jesuit? It is to know that one is a sinner,
yet called to be a companion of Jesus as Ignatius was”
(GC 32. Decree 2)
“What is to be Companion of Jesus today? It is to engage,
under the standard of the Cross, in the crucial struggle of
our time: the struggle for faith and that struggle for justice
which it includes”
(GC 32. Decree 2)

5. “The Mission of the Society of Jesus today is the service of
faith, of which the promotion of Justice is an absolute
requirement. For reconciliation with God demands the
reconciliation of people with one another”
(Decree 4. 48)
“ This has always been the mission of the Society; but it
gains new meaning and urgency in the light of the needs
and aspirations of the men and women of our time, and it is
in that light that we examine it anew.”
(Decree 4. 49)
“ It is from Faith and Experience combined that we learn
how to respond most appropriately to new needs arising
from new situations”
(Decree 4.55)

6. “ The first thing that must be said about the world which it
is our mission to evangelize is this: everywhere, but in very
different situations, we have to preach Jesus Christ to men
and women who have never really heard of Him, or who do
not yet know of Him sufficiently”
(Decree 4. 73)

7. “If promotion of Justice is to attain its ultimate end,
it should be carried out in such a way as to bring
men and women to desire and to welcome the
eschatological freedom and salvation offered to us
by God in Christ. It will respond to humanity’s
deepest yearnings, not just for bread and freedom,
but for God and His friendship- a longing to be sons
and daughters in His sight”
(Decree 4. 82)

8. “ A decision in this direction will inevitably bring
us to ask ourselves with whom we are identified
and what our apostolic preferences are. For us, the
promotion of justice is not one apostolic area
among others, the “social apostolate”; rather it
should be the concern of our whole life and a
dimension of all our apostolic endeavors”.
(Decree 4. 96)

9. “ The carrying out of this mission demands a
very wide dispersion both of men and of
ministries, given the great social and cultural
diversity of our world. Hence, what St.
Ignatius says about the need for union of
minds and hearts among us was never more
true than now”.
(Decree 11. 202)

10. “Le us not forget that while our world
poses obstacles in the way of our search
for union with God in Christ, it also offers
suggestions for surmounting those
obstacles, which we should submit to an
Ignatian discernment of spirits in order to
determine where in them the Spirit of God
is moving us”.
(Decree11. 208)

11. “ The society cannot meet the demands of
today’s apostolate without reform of its practice
of poverty. Jesuits will be unable to hear the “
cry of the poor” unless they have greater
personal experience of the miseries and distress
of the poor.”
(Decree 12. 261).

12. Thank you