We, the members of the North-West Africa Province, realize, like our founder St. Ignatius, that we are spiritually weak and can do nothing good in the world except for the Spirit of God which prompts us to works of faith and justice. Thus, like every other Jesuit formed in the spirit of the Spiritual Exercises, we always work to bring about the reign of God's kingdom in whatever endeavour we are involved.

Hence, in the words of the Thirty-Second General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, held on December 2, 1974-March 7, 1975, the Congregated fathers defined a Jesuit thus:

What is it to be a Jesuit? It is to know that one is a sinner, yet called to be a companion of Jesus as Ignatius was: Ignatius, who begged the Blessed Virgin to "place him with her Son," and who then saw the Father himself ask Jesus, carrying his Cross, to take this pilgrim into his company. What is it to be a companion of Jesus today? It is to engage, under the standard of the Cross, in the crucial struggle of our time: the struggle for faith and that struggle for justice which it includes. (401)