The late Dean Brackley, S.J., challenges us in this quote:
“I invite you to discover your vocation in downward mobility. It’s a scary request… The world is obsessed with wealth and security and upward mobility and prestige. But let us teach solidarity, walking with the victims, serving and loving. I offer this for you to consider – downward mobility.
And I would say in this enterprise there is a great deal of hope.
Have the courage to lose control.
Have the courage to feel useless.
Have the courage to listen.
Have the courage to receive.
Have the courage to let your heart be broken.
Have the courage to feel.
Have the courage to fall in love.
Have the courage to get ruined for life.
Have the courage to make a friend.”
Father Brackley espoused the teachings of Ignatius of Loyola in his paper – Downward Mobility: Social Implications of St Ignatius’ Two Standards, published in Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 20/1 Jan, 1988