ALLELUIA TIME for Jesuit novices 72 years ago. Christ is risen . . . Deo Gratias at breakfast, manual labor, correcting your neighbor, looking ahead .

We finished the third week and had our third break day—walking in the morning, playing “passball” in the afternoon (touch football without touching), returning to retreat mode with 4:30 “flexoria,” afternoon meditation—and entered the Fourth Week, about the risen life of Christ.

If you never thought four days of meditating could be fun, then you never did it after three-plus weeks raking over the coals in your soul including a long, hard look at suffering and death on a near-cosmic scale.

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