Alfredo Verdoy. Jesuit priest. Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University of Comillas and Director of the Historical Archive of the Society of Jesus in Spain.
People who have been discharged from the Coronavirus testify that throughout their short and intense illness they went through the following stages: indignation and victimisation; dealing with the acceptance of pain and disappointment; fighting relentlessly, despite the feeling of exhaustion and even death, to defend their lives; and finally, slowly and slowly recovering their vital signs.
Perhaps many of us, members of a society unaccustomed in general terms to frustration and the struggle for life, find ourselves, in the midst of the quarantine we are living through, in the midst of the stage of indignation and victimisation. It does us no good to stay in it for too long. The lamentations are of no use; on the contrary, they make us weaker.They disturb us, they sadden us, and they sink us in our souls. We need, if we as a society are still mired in anger, to get out of everything that robs us of being fully human and everything that destroys us internally.
We will emerge when we all, as individuals and as members of our society, ask ourselves the right questions, however crude and not entirely politically correct they may be, and when we all, as individuals and as members of our society, ask ourselves the right questions. let us respond with the necessary courage, beyond false accusations, with the truth that frees us from past bondage and opens up horizons of life and hope..
It will be these new horizons of life and hope, many of which are already being born and growing among us, that will help us to face all that is happening to us without fear, without resentment and without envy. Strengthened, but still weakened and in need of all kinds of helpWe will feel that nature, as long as we respect it and use it properly, will stop responding to us with aggressiveness, arrogance and excess; we will perceive that the whole of humanity needs to return to its point of origin, to its most glorious stages in which all men, from the smallest to the greatest, from the newly begotten to the one who is saying goodbye to life, are necessary and dispensable and disposable; Finally, we will be thankful that above us is the strength and enthusiasm for life that are born of the Creator of the world, who aspires only that his children should live as true brothers and sisters and as beings of solidarity and not indignation.