WITHOUT GUILE
Fr.
Doug McCarthy, S.J. (my old spiritual director) once told me it was a great struggle for
him to write something others would read. So I was surprised to come
across these two articles written by him below. I found them while researching
for this post to mark the third anniversary of his death. One article is on the environment, the other is about an Indigenous elder who died. I thought both worth sharing.
I also want to share a personal memory from my spiritual direction days with Fr. Doug on the anniversary of his passing.
It was at the end of a spiritual direction session on a hot summer day, a lot like this one today. We had talked about my work. I was suffering from stress hives. Fr. Doug was a man of few words. It was not my experience that he "babied" people. So I was surprised that as Fr. Doug got up to leave at the end of our session, he stopped at the door and gently said, "try some calamine lotion." He cared.
Whenever I see calamine lotion now I think of Fr. Doug!
Cb, Scarborough
Image credit: Our Lady of Lourdes
https://ignation.ca/2019/06/22/affliction/
Today is also The Feast of St. Bartholomew / Nathaniel: St. Bartholomew, a doctor in the Jewish law, was a dear friend of St.
Philip the Apostle. Because Bartholomew was a man "in whom there was no
guile," his mind was open to the truth. (Wikipedia)
