Your joys are my joys. Your sorrows and suffering are mine
These are deep cries from the heart and must be listened to. Bringing the first UAP to people is an important way of doing this by listening, responding to some of these appeals, and giving people hope. The responses need to be on two levels, namely the theoretical, and the practical. Very briefly, and generally, let me make two sets of suggestions:
i. The theoretical. If people can understand what Ignatian spirituality and discernment is all about, it can help them see all these tragedies with new eyes, and to derive strength and consolation from them. It gives them faith, hope, and love in this critical time. Let me take just one aspect of Ignatian spirituality to explain how discernment Mukai -Vukani No.77 | July 2020 |
can bring this about. Ignatian spirituality is essentially TRINITARIAN. Ignatius recounts how, when God revealed the Trinity to him, he wept for joy and could not stop talking about it. For him Trinity is not some abstract doctrine, but a living reality, which has deep practical implications for our lives. We all know life is 14
