Service
Learning, Social Justice and the Jesuit Mission
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be
challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering,
with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which
then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection. Students, in the course of their formation,
must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can
learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering
and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think,
judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the
disadvantaged and the oppressed.