Ignatius said that his “last defect” was that when he walked the halls and saw another Jesuit, he would laugh because he was so filled with the other’s goodness. He finally “reduced this” to a smile. Such an impulse comes from knowing that the Tender One has “pitched his royal tent inside of you,” as Hafiz writes, “So I will always lean my heart as close to your soul as I can.” A smile is hard, then, to contain.
