I forget sometimes that we all need healing. I know we pray for the healing of others - all the time. But I forget that we ourselves suffer the wounds of loving them.

I met a man at a funeral and asked, "How do I know you?" He told me where he was from, and it has altogether changed my experience of that place.

This is the continuation of a series of reflections on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This reflection is based on the last two sections of Chapter 5, beginning with The Trinitarian Mystery, pages 56 through 59.

Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum

What makes for true happiness? Economics? Politics? Or does it come, rather, from some deeper place?

Of all the attributes of Saint Joseph, his faith is, I think, the most praiseworthy. He believed that Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit. And it strikes me that this is what we're called to believe about the Sacraments of the Church.

This is the continuation of a series of reflections on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This reflection is based on the next two sections of Chapter 5, beginning with The True Nature of Sin, pages 53 through 56.

Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum

It's the same Christ. Whether we find in Him friend or foe is up to us.

When we were children in the spiritual life, God took us by the hand, and we knew Him as master. Now, because of Christ, God lives within us, leading us by His Spirit, and we know Him as Father, even as Christ does.  And when people love us with His Spirit, we see Jesus. 

We seek emotional, psychological, and physical healing most often. But spiritual healing alone brings to our lives a healing that flows from the source of who we are, namely our heart.

This is the continuation of a series of reflections on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This reflection is based on the first two sections of Chapter 5, The Mystery of the Cross, pages 50 through 53.

Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum