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In 1521, a cannonball shattered the leg of a vain, ambitious soldier named Íñigo López de Loyola at the Battle of Pamplona. Months of painful recovery followed — and in his boredom, reaching for stories of chivalry, he found instead the lives of Christ and the saints. That shattered leg became the doorway to sainthood. …

One of the greatest misconceptions about grief is that healing means leaving the past behind. We hear phrases like, “It’s time to move on,” “You need to let go,” or “You have to get over it.” Though usually well-intentioned, these words can leave grieving people feeling that healing requires forgetting the person they loved or …

“𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢?” “𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒,” ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑. — 𝐿𝑢𝑘𝑒 18:41 (𝑁𝐼𝑉) Back in 2013, over lunch with an old friend, I was asked a question that changed my life — one I’m still answering today. That friend was Fr. Hank Hilton, SJ, and the lunch was …