What does distance come to mean in a pandemic?

I came to participate in the Novena of Grace at St Ignatius Church in Portland, Oregon because I answered the phone. The call was from my dear friend and Jesuit priest, Joseph Carver.

Justice and Peace. One cannot exist without the other, and the call of Love governs them both…

I’d like to thank you for inviting me to participate in this Novena with you; to pray together to God, to ask humbly and boldly for our needs and our deepest desires…

I want to thank you again for inviting me here and for your very warm welcome. I’m discovering what a powerful blessing it is to pray so consciously for all of you and for all of our deepest desires…

Eternal reward. Eternal punishment. I was in the first grade when I learned about sins, mortal and venial, and about heaven and hell, and eternity. I tried to wrap my…