The congregation met in Rome in the first three months of 1995. Its work affects the immediate future of Jesuits worldwide. Our manner of life personally and in communities has to be simple, hospitable, and open. Economic openness and dependence on the community for income and expenses are indispensable for a life of fraternal poverty. Spiritual discernment will make us vigilant servants' regarding the evangelical quality of our lives.
Personal discernment is practiced in prayer and the examen.
Lifestyle is an important topic for community discernment. To feel what it is like to be dispossessed we need direct personal experience. We must appreciate poverty and desire it as a grace. Synopses of Other Decrees which are available.