And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
1 Cor 13:13
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FAITH
Humans are resilient, let us trust ourselves and each other
Eileen M Russell | National Catholic Reporter | 3 April 2020
Viktor Frankl, the famous Austrian psychiatrist who endured four years in Nazi concentration camps, observed that those who survived the camps best were those who continued to express their humanity by taking care of or reaching out to others, recognizing they were all in it together. That care can only be accessed by being present enough to see clearly what is before us and what is needed. We cannot access that presence of mind and heart if we are panicking about an unknown, distant future that we cannot control. We cannot get to the end of the tightrope by focusing on the destination. We cannot deliver the baby before the body is ready. We can only get there by focusing on what is in front of us, doing what we can, trusting that we have what it takes to adapt, and taking care of each other so we all get to the other side together. And if we can manage that, something miraculous will have been born.
HOPE
The pandemic is a portal
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
Arundhati Roy | Financial Times | April 3, 2020
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
LOVE
These Are The Sacrifices Medical Workers Make To Fight Coronavirus
Working in health care comes at a huge cost right now. This is what they're doing to protect us from COVID-19.
Julia Ries | Huffpost | 3 April 2020
But the sacrifices don’t end once the shift ends. The pandemic has completely uprooted medical workers’ personal lives and redefined what’s normal. Here are just some of the radical and heroic acts they’re doing to fight the pandemic:
“I’m very concerned because I don’t want to bring anything home to family,” Bain said. “Thankfully, she’s safe, but I miss her terribly.”
“We talked with our kids about who they will live with if we don’t survive this. I refuse to not be ready,” Dexter told HuffPost.
Postscript
It's OK to feel overwhelmed. Here's what to do next.
Elizabeth Gilbert | Ted Connects | 4 April 2020
Wishing you faith, hope and love,
Rinald D’Souza SJ
HISTORIA DOMUS
For it is not so much knowledge that fills and satisfies the soul,
but the intimate understanding and relish of the truth.
The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, #2
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