“Love your enemies,” (Lk 6: 27). This brief but powerful statement of Jesus calls us as Christians to respond to the violence in the world with not simply a passive non-violence, but with an active non-violent response. The Third Week of the Exercises calls us to a compassion (a suffering with) the passion of the suffering Christ in today’s world. The third level of humility calls us to be willing to experience poverty, ridicule, and rejection in order to further the building of the kindom. We will explore the experiences of more contemporary models like Gandhi, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Jean Vanier, Thict Nhat Hanh, Dom Helder Camara and others to see the transformational power of returning violence with love.