Feast of St Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits. He began life as a vain courtier and soldier. The turning point came while he was recovering from a war injury and was given a book of lives of saints. As he read he thought: “What if I should do as St Francis or St Dominic did?”

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We are shaped by what we pay attention to and admire. Our culture floods us with things unworthy of our attention or models who make us feel powerless. Why I write about saints, not just canonized, but who expand our moral imagination and make us think, what if I lived like that?
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
In the spirit of St. Francis and others, Ignatius truly lived by loving, more than being loved, by consoling, more than being consoled. As a clerical abuse survivor, born 400 years after his death, I am grateful to many Jesuits who, in Christ, embraced my wounds giving me hope.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
He read All Saints.
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