There
is a strange sadness in growing freedom. Our soul may have been scarred by the
chains with which our addictions have bound us, but at least they were familiar
chains. We were used to them. And as they loosen, we are likely to feel a vague
sense of loss. The things to which we were addicted may still be with us, but
we no longer give them the ultimate importance we once did. We are like caged
animals beginning to experience freedom, and there is something we miss about
the cage.
John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
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