“Sometimes it is only in retrospect, when you’ve gone through a really hard time, but you see the fruit that has continued to be born in your life and in other people’s lives that makes you say, ‘YES, God’s grace was working here even when I didn’t feel it in the moment.’ ”
Conversation
Ann Manganaro, Sister of Loretto and physician, volunteered in 1988 to work in a village in El Salvador in the heart of the civil war. She endured helicopter attacks and night raids but lived to see peace return. Then returned home to die of cancer on June 6 1993 at 46.
Near the end, she said she had come to understand the Wounds. Her own wounds, the wounds of El Salvador? No, she said, “The wounds of everyone, the wounds of us all.”
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