Workers for the Reign of God

209. We embrace the most confronting questions of our culture and age, written as they are so poignantly in the lives of the outcasts and the hopeless young people we meet in our ministry. Through our hopeful and caring presence, even at personal cost, and through our voice in the Church and in society, we bring the world closer to the Reign of God, where all its people have the chance of living decent human lives.

210. Our vocation as educators in these pastoral and social settings, then, is a calling to be prophetic people, especially on behalf of the "little ones", ¹⁹ those on the sideroads of society. We seek to be light for them and to point to the Light, Jesus Christ. ²⁰