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...
Year of Prayer

Year of Prayer

“The heart of the Church’s mission is prayer” Pope Francis. Learning to pray is as necessary as it is difficult. That is why we want to start with you a way to learn to pray. But in a way that is not a mechanical repetition of learned phrases, a...
What does the Heart of Christ mean?

What does the Heart of Christ mean?

This is the question that Father Pedro Arrupe SJ asked himself and asked the Society of Jesus. I quote some of his phrases from a homily given in Valladolid in 1970.   “Devotion to the Heart of Christ is the summary of all Christian doctrine…...
ARMS OR WALLS?

ARMS OR WALLS?

The Pope’s prayer intention for the month of June is about migrants fleeing war and hunger: whose side are we on? ARMS OR WALLS? Suffering faces, feet on the road, bags filled with the little they have managed to take from home: the protagonists of this...