At fidelity, then, to the Mission of the Corporation Matteo Ricci, we now
this effort with the heart full of optimism and hope, but also with the
awareness that we will have to do a lot in a country and a continent
organized in part, on brains poorly sorted, poorly led and badly
trained, in addition to the selfishness and injustice, where the majority of the
Latin americans living in dire conditions, and where - as a social organization -
we are called to be salt, light and leaven “of a new heaven and a new earth” in
our continent.