Amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Lenten season, calling on the Mother of Sorrows feels all the more urgent.

Although we find ourselves separated from the sacraments, it is possible to make an Ignatian retreat from home as we enter Holy Week.

당신은 “모든 병과 질병을 치유하시면서” 도시와 마을을 여행 하셨습니다.

As Christians have become more familiar and neighborly with people of other religious traditions, we have extended that familiarity to appreciation, and sometimes appreciation becomes appropriation. 

What our world will become will depend on the way we respond now, on how we can open our eyes and hearts to the things that really matter in our lives: family, friends, people, community, nation and a healthier world.

I have traveled all over the world, yet I have never felt the need to hide my ethnicity until now, in my own hometown, New York City.