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JULY 2021 VOLUME 15 ISSUE 3
HEEDING THE CALL
What does it mean to be called to be a spiritual of redress can set things right—heeding the
director or companion? call. Responding to it can then finally begin
to wear down our most obdurate qualms by
Rummaging through some old grad school essays replacing them with a deep sense of purpose
in anticipation of a move, I came across the and conviction, allowing us to rise to the highest
following, which although written over 30 years pinnacle of our being: the effort to align with
ago for my spiritual director at the time, a priest ultimate mystery, which we variously call God or
with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, still the Universe.
resonates with me:
Here we seek to replace our own perspectives
“The foundation or backdrop for feeling called is with broader, bigger ones, infinite ones actually,
one of intense doubt, uncertainty and confusion. those far beyond our rational understanding. And
In fact, this doubt is so entrenched, the distress while we may struggle to define the experience
or the confusion that the world exhibits so deeply with our words, we feel and intuitively
felt, and our own shortcomings and inadequacies apprehend Love as our ultimate purpose, with
so painfully obvious that only an extreme form great certainty.”
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