Part Travelogue, More Spiritual Nourishment

After numerous news reports about the pandemic in Italy, an honest and touching personal account refreshes. In  early March Jesuit Patrick Gilger flew to Milan to study Italian. His America Magazine post are journal entries that bear his reflective stamp and deft turns of phrase (“alone-together age”; “before social distancing became social discipline”). His post conflates his present with Milan’s present and past and helps us appreciate our present.

Father Gilger also recalled that 3^rd-Century St. Cyprian pastored during a plague in North Africa and noted that today’s “health care workers and grocery store clerks and all those who stand on the front lines of our own pandemic…teach us, as did Cyprian, that the question of whether we have the courage to come closer to those who are suffering must be posed again and again.”

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