Experience refers to those "defining moments" in which we learn exactly who we are. John Carroll, he said, must provide students with an experience which prepares them for the world but also "cares for their souls ... and if you don't believe that, you shouldn't be here."

Narrative describes our set of experiences, "enough defining moments" to leave us with our own history. "As human beings we are all defined by our stories." St. Ignatius rarely used narrative, but drew upon it constantly, inspiring the first Jesuits to write about their work. He always talked about mutual experience, never isolated experience. Even the Spiritual Exercises involve mutual conversation with Christ rather than total introspection. It is through narrative that we achieve formation of our students ("we need a better word"), inviting the younger generation to come to responsible adulthood. "As individuals discover their own personal narrative, the institution must provide a structure to create the institutional narrative."

Mission for the Society of Jesus, from the beginning, meant pastoral care. "Catholic" to Ignatius had far less to do with codification than "the meeting of the divine and the human" ... "less about theological controversy and more about 'what do the people need?'" Either we become the Church of Christ, or we become little sects protecting our own identity. Ignatius' only motive was to help people. There was no ambiguity. We're not here to get something, we're here to give something.