Originally published at Ignatian Spirituality
During this Easter season, I attended a conference of Mission Formation Officers in the Jesuit Schools Network; I was on the organizing committee. As I watched the year-long work of the committee finally come together, enhanced by the energy and passion of the participants, I felt such future promise and paschal joy. Even now, weeks later, I am savoring the graces. But I am also working through the letdown feeling that inevitably happens when a Spirit-filled week has come to an end. I wonder if this is how the disciples felt after they got that “retreat high” of seeing Jesus up close on the road to Emmaus and then watched him leave them once again.
Years ago, in my second post on this site, I wrote about a wise Jesuit priest who had been an example for me of what deep contemplation and intimate relationship with God looked like in practice. While at the conference, surrounded by both lay and Jesuit ministers passionate about continuing the mission of both the Catholic Church and the Society of Jesus, I felt once again the presence of Johnny Edwards, SJ, as well as the presence of several
