Learning to reread life

Learning to reread life

Among the legacies left to us by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Spiritual Exercises is spiritual rereading. What is spiritual rereading? It is a way of discovering the movements of the Lord in our daily life through an examination of conscience. It is a simple prayer...
Anointing: a gift in pain

Anointing: a gift in pain

I do not often administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, since I have been involved in youth ministry for years. However, it has played a certain role in my formation as a Jesuit and here I let three significant episodes emerge. The first goes back to the...
Being By Their Side

Being By Their Side

Before equivocation or sin, what makes us profoundly human and similar is the experience of pain and illness. An experience that becomes the extreme limit of a journey that takes us beyond our comprehension, but leads to the embrace of God! My experience as a man and...