When I share Ignatius’s conversion experience, at this point I ask the group, “What if, that day, Ignatius’s eyes had not been ‘opened a little’? What if he had never become aware of, understood, and taken action in response to this interior spiritual experience? What would have been different in his life?” “Most probably,” I answer, “he would have continued to live as before, as his father and his brothers were living. What would have been different,” I further ask, “in the life of his university companion, the future St. Francis Xavier, and the Church in Asia? In the life of another
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