Five hundred years stretch wide and coil in tightAll at once, drawing us from our modern livesBack to a battlefield, a cannonball flying,Reminding us that we are pilgrims before anything else.Wherever we find ourselves on this earth–Like us, breathed into being by divine love–May we never make the mistake of believingThat we are far from […]
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God of all people, You were there when the cannonball shattered the leg of St.Ignatius, shattered his dreams, and shattered what he assumedhis life would be. Even in a moment of pain and uncertainty, doubtand darkness, you spoke to Ignatius a word of peace and light.You showed him the path to you and the person […]
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They fired the canon. It exploded. It ripped through the wall of the castle of Pamplona. It shattered the right leg of a leader of the castle’s defenders, Inigo de Loyola. A flying rock injured his left leg. The assault almost killed them, but he survived. Inigo – Ignatius – had been able to persuade […]
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