Not far from the Sanctuary of Loyola, near St. Ignatius’ family home, pilgrims can visit the Magdalene Chapel. When Ignatius returned to his homeland having fallen ill in Paris in April 1535, he stayed in Azpeitia, a neighboring village, living with the sick and the indigent at the Magdalene hospital and praying at the nearbyContinue reading >>
On the April day that I went to the emergency room for the first time, I returned home to learn that my cousin and godmother had died after a bewildering health emergency. It had only been a few years since we had lost two other family members far too young, and in those intervening yearsContinue reading >>
Sometimes I cry because I’m sick. The pain itself doesn’t make me cry, though there have been times when it has made me cry out. What makes me weep is the inversion of all that was normal in my life: health and lack of worry. Just when I think that I have accepted the newContinue reading >>
