Pedro Arrupe's Speech

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On the feast of St. Ignatius, July 31, 1973, Pedro Arrupe gave his most powerful speech to an audience of alumni of Jesuit Schools giving the task of education men and women for others. This speech gave a deeper meaning behind education and Arrupe preached that he wanted justice and peace to play a role in Jesuit Education. Through the three actions Arrupe layed out to complete his task of educating men and women for others, he was able to show how he believed this is the way to ending injustice. While he planning to begin educating with justice at the school, he was teaching the alumni who were present at the speech how to be men and women for others. Arrupe’s stance on education brought Jesuit Education to the prestige it is viewed as …show more content…

The goal of the speech was for jesuit educators to no longer only focus on education, but to educate for justice. Arrupe has the people reflect back asking “ Have we Jesuits educated you for justice”(Arrupe.) The answer was no, Arrupe wants jesuits to bring justice into the world. He believes justice lies within the ignition spirit and creates three ways to bring and spread justice all over the world. All three actions rely on being men and women for others. First, living much more simply has the mantra of men and women for others. By living a modest life and donating the surplus of income to charity helps each other. By working a job an earning enough that allows you to help someone who cannot provide for themselves or their family is the ultimate example of being a man or women for others. The second way of “no profit from unjust sources” really has a deeper meaning of being a man or women for others(Arrupe). By making a more money by takin advantage of someone who is underprivileged is extremely inhuman. It is important to teach justice and mold students to be a man or woman for others. If a CEO of a large corporation was a man or woman for others they would think about their factory workers and give them good working conditions, instead of showing no care an getting more profit. Lastly, “a firm resolve to be agents of change in society” requires everyone to be a man or woman for others. (Arrupe) Their are two ways you need this, one, creating an impact and ending injustice shows you are for others. Secondly, their needs to be a unity with people working together for others. Working together as men and women for other makes a drastic difference because the one person alone cannot end injustice, but as group you

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