COMMENTARY: We have a golden opportunity to critique and resist a system run by the bean counters and efficiency mongers — and put the radical love of Christ back at the center of patient care.
What better way to begin our conference than with the celebration of the mystery of the Holy Eucharist and the miracle of the “real presence” of Christ.
As St. Teresa of Calcutta would often say, “Unless we can see the face of Jesus disguised in the appearance of the bread, we will never see his face in the distressing disguise of the poor and the sick.”
St. Paul reminds us in his First Letter to the Corinthians that “knowledge inflates with pride … but if one loves God, one is known by him.” St. Paul then relates this kind of “inflated knowledge” with idolatry and as a false God!
How do we resist this idolatry of “inflated knowledge”? We do so by allowing God to love us first and then by seeking to know him better.
In other words, formation in Christ comes before mere information about Christ. Formation of this kind, the formation we receive in prayer and humility at a conference like this,
