philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines Reflections on Renewal in the Jesuit Apostolate of Education in the Philippine Over the Last Decade Bienvenido Nebres, S.J. Philippine Studies vol. 29, no. 3 & 4 (1981): 501–514 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net Fri June 27 13:30:20 2008 Philippine Studies 29 (1981): 501-14 T Reflections on Renewal in the Jesuit Apostolate of Education in the Philippines Over the Last Decade BIENVENIDO F. NEBRES, S.J. The last decade has been one of rapid change for the Society of Jesus and its work in the Philippines today. This is not surpris- ing in view of the immense changes in the Church and in the world. On the forces transforming the Society of Jesus today, Fr. Karl Rahner writes: The third moving force is the Church itself in its own present state of change. Probably these changes were held back for too long. Maybe it was thought that a close holding to the past was a Christian virtue and spelled salvation for a threatened world.