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DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND / 7. Holy Sepulcher, emptiness is a friend

It will be difficult for the pilgrim – as long as he wants to do it – to forget that slab of virgin rock that protrudes almost two spans from the floor in the basilica of the Agony, at Gethsemani. It is a rock which, although cold, is boiling: it is the place where Christ … Read more

What I learned with my Jesuit friend El Gallo

by Aaron Mathis

Xavier Fields, The roosterleft an indelible mark on many young people who, like me, were part of the team of volunteers in the community of Chinatú, south of the Sierra Tarahumara in the 1990s. The rooster he was our parish priest during this time, and when I say this I don’t mean a “Sunday church … Read more